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TO    TH  E    MOST 

ROYAL   AND    RENOVMED 

M  A(j  E  s  T I E  ofthe  High-borne  PrincelTe 

Anna  o/^  D  e  n  m  a  r  k  e  ,    bj  the 

Grace  ot  God  C^ve  bNe  of£«g/W, 

ScetUnd,  France,  and  Ireland,  &c. 

Imperiall  and  Incomparable  Maieftie, 

Eeingwith  me,  all  ofrhe,  is  in  your 
Royail  pofTefsion,  and  vvliatfoeuer 
pieces  of  mine  haue  heeretofore, 
vnder  other  ftarrespafled  the  pub- 
like view,  come  now  of  right  to 
be  vnder  the  predommation  of  a 
Power,  that  both  contain  s  all  then- 
perfections,  and  hath  influences  of  amore  fubhme  na- 
ture, I  could  notbut  alfo  take  m  this  part  (wheroftime 
hadworn-out  the  edition)  which  the  world  hath  long 
fincc  had  of  mine,and  lay  it  atycur  Sacred  feet,  as  a  me- 
moriallofmydeuoteddutie,  and  to  iliew  that  where  I 
^n\,l  niullbc  all  I  am,andcan  not  ftand  difperfed  inmy 
obfcruancc,  being  wholly  f  and  therein  happy) 

Hour  faired  Majesties  mojl 

humhle  and  loyall  ferihvit 

loHN  Florio. 


DEDICATIONS 


AN  ANTHOLOGY  OF  THE  FORMS   USED 

FROM    THE    EARLIEST    DAYS   OF 

BOOK-MAKING     TO     THE 

PRESENT    TIME 


COMPILED  BY 

MARY    ELIZABETH    BROWN 


G.  P.  PUTNAM'S  SONS 
NEW    YORK    AND    LONDON 

Zbc  "Rnicherbocfter   press 
1913 


Copyright,  1913 

BY 

MARY    ELIZABETH    BROWN 


"Cbc  T:nicl!crbocl!cr  prces,  l^cw  Sort: 


This  Book 

is  dedicated  to 

ALL  SORTS  AND  CONDITIONS  OF  MEN 


291512 


fOVC\QOV^ 

My  purpose  in  the  following  anthology  of  dedications 
has  been  to  make  a  representative,  rather  than  an  exhaus- 
tive collection.  My  first  idea  was  to  take  only  beautiful 
dedications  and  above  aU  those  which  showed  thought  and 
originality.  I  next  sought  those  which  were  quaint  and 
curious,  grave  and  gay,  and  then  wandering  through  the 
wide  field  of  English  literature,  tried  to  have  each  section  of 
it  represented.  Dedications  which  brought  one  in  touch 
with  the  world  of  religion,  philanthropy,  the  fine  arts, 
science,  nature  and  travel  have  also  claimed  my  attention. 
Then,  narrowing  my  interest,  I  searched  for  those  to  cele- 
brated people,  or  by  celebrated  people,  even  though  the 
dedications  were  not  particularly  desirable  in  themselves. 

I  was  anxious  to  include  great  heroes,  as  David  Living- 
stone, and  when  unable  to  obtain  dedications  to  them  I 
substituted  books  by  them  or  about  them.  The  same  was 
true  in  regard  to  certain  industrial  subjects,  as  needlework, 
cooking,  etc.  Last  but  not  least,  I  tried  to  include 
dedications  which  were  valuable  because  of  their  human 
interest. 

Many  symphonies,  sonatas  and  operas  are  dedicated,  but 
limited  space  made  their  omission  necessary. 

The  chronological  arrangement  has  been  followed 
throughout  this  book,  this  seeming  most  desirable. 

Having  been  deprived  of  all  practical  use  of  my  own  eyes 
during  the  past  two  years,  I  have  found  occupation  and 
interest  in  gathering  the  material  out  of  which  this  book 
has  grown.     My  warm  thanks  are  due  to  Miss  Alice  De 


vi  Foreword 

Voll,  who  has  acted  as  eyes  for  me  during  my  search;  to 
Miss  Dorothy  Brewster,  who  has  revised  the  manuscript 
and  seen  the  book  through  the  press;  also  to  my  daughter 
Miss  Mary  Magoun  Brown,  to  Mrs.  WilHam  Adams  Brown, 
Mrs.  Candace  Wheeler,  Mrs.  J.  B.  Van  Wagenen,  Miss 
Lucy  H.  Humphrey,  Miss  L.  H.  French,  Miss  Clara  Buffum, 
Miss  Mabel  Crawford,  Mr.  George  A.  PHmpton,  Mr. 
Archer  M.  Huntington,  and  other  friends,  for  sympathy 
and  help  extended  in  many  ways. 

M.    E.    B. 


New  York, 
JuTie,  1913. 


The  compiler  desires  to  make  her  appreciative  acknow- 
ledgments to  the  authors  and  publishers  of  books  of 
literature  of  later  date,  dedications  from  which  have 
been  included  in  her  selection.  The  publishers  are 
Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  Harper  &  Bros.,  Houghton 
Mifflin  Co.,  Macmillan  &  Co.;  Doubleday,  Page  &  Co.; 
Bums  &  Gates.  The  names  of  the  authors  whose 
dedications  have  thus  been  utilized  are  specified  in  the 
text  in  connection  with  the  dedications  themselves. 

New  York, 

October  20,  igij. 


vu 


Contents 


Foreword    . 
Introduction 


CHAPTER 

I.— To  Deity 


FAGB 

iii 


DEDICATIONS 


II.— To  The  Virgin  Mary 

III.— To  Royalty 

IV. — ^To  Nobility 

V. — To  Dignitaries  of  Church  and  State 

VI. — To  Countries,  States,  Cities,  and  their 
Inhabitants 

VII. — To  Armies  and  Navies     . 

VIII. — To  Institutions  and  Societies 

IX. — To  Lovers  of  Mankind    . 

X. — To  Teachers  and  Students     . 

XI. — ^To  Authors      .... 

XII.— To  Women        .... 

XIII.— To  Children    .... 


II 

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29 

85 
121 

161 
179 
187 
199 
213 
231 

255 
267 


VIU 


Contents 


XIV.— To  Friends 

XV.— To  Relatives  .... 

XVI.— To  Oneself 

XVII.— To  Animals 

XVIII.— To  Things  Spiritual      . 
XIX. — To  Things,  Animate  and  Inanimate 
XX. — To  the  Reader      .... 
XXI. — To  Any  and  Every  One 

Bibliography  .... 

Index  of  Authors  .... 


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455 


ILLUSTRATIONS 

PAGE 

Dedication  Reproduced  from  Montaigne's 
Works  .....     Frontispiece 

Translation  of  John  Florio.    London,  1613 

Dedication  Reproduced  from  "The  Workes  of 
THE  Most  High  and  Mightie  Prince,  James, 
BY  THE  Grace  of  God,  King  of  Great 
Britain,  France  and  Ireland,  Defender  of 
THE  Faith,  etc."  Published  by  James, 
Bishop  of  Winton,  and  Dean  of  His  Majes- 
tie's  Chappell  Royall,  London,  Anno  1616      30 

Dedication  Reproduced  from  "The  Countess 
of  Pembroke's  Arcadia."  Written  by  Sir 
Philip  Sidney,  Knight.  Tenth  Edition, 
London,  1655 86 


DEDICATIONS 


DEDICATIONS 


Untrobuction 


"To  compose  a  dedication,"  writes  Edmund  Gosse,  "is 
without  doubt  one  of  the  primitive  instincts  of  scribbling 
man."  Dedications  have  been  written  since  books  were 
made,  and  the  custom  is  confined  to  no  one  nation,  race  or 
tongue.  "Temples,"  says  Aristides,  400  B.C.,  "are  to  be 
dedicated  to  the  gods,  and  books  to  good  men."  The 
earliest  written  book  which  has  come  down  to  us  in  any- 
Turanian  language,  The  Kojiki,  which  was  completed  in 
712  A.D.,  contains  a  complimentary  preface  which  is  in 
effect  a  dedication.  The  author  addresses  the  then  reign- 
ing empress  of  Japan  in  the  following  words:  "Altogether 
I  have  written  three  volumes  which  I  respectfully  present. 
I,  Yasumaro,  with  true  trembling  and  true  fear,  I  bow  the 
head,  I  bow  the  head."^  The  practice  of  dedication  was 
at  its  height  in  England  during  the  sixteenth  and  the  early 
part  of  the  seventeenth  centuries,  and  in  France  under 
Louis  XIV,  but  at  no  period  of  literary  history  has  it  wholly 
lapsed.  Like  all  other  human  conventions,  the  dedication 
has  been  submissive  to  the  finger  of  time  and  has  changed 
in  form  to  suit  the  changing  taste  of  succeeding  generations. 

'  Quoted  from  Edmund  Gosse,  Elizabethan  Dedications  of  Books. 
According  to  a  competent  authority,  Chinese  authors,  instead  of  print- 
ing an  address  to  a  patron,  ask  the  patron  to  write  for  them  a  compli- 
mentary preface,  which  might  be  considered  in  eflect  a  dedication. 


Dedications 


In  his  interesting  volume,  The  Dedication  of  Books, 
London,  1887,  Mr.  Henry  B.  Wheatley  traces  three  stages 
in  the  history  of  the  dedication.  In  its  first  stage,  the  dedi- 
cation is  seen  as  the  spontaneous  expression  of  an  author's 
love  and  respect  for  his  friend  or  patron.  "Under  these 
regards,"  runs  the  quaint  language  of  the  Tatler,  "it  was 
a  memorable  honor  to  both  parties  and  a  very  agreeable 
record  of  their  commerce  with  each  other."  In  the  second 
stage,  we  travel  through  the  years  when  all  sense  of  shame 
was  absent  from  the  mind  of  the  author,  who  sold  his 
praises  to  the  highest  bidder  on  the  simple  principle, — the 
more  praise,  the  more  pay.  Even  the  greatest  authors  did 
this.  Prices  varied  from  twenty  shillings  to  twenty  pounds, 
but  Bayle  refused  two  hundred  guineas  from  the  Duke  of 
Shrewsbury  for  a  dedication  of  his  dictionary.  He  said, 
"  I  have  so  often  ridiculed  dedications  that  I  must  not  risk 
any."  From  the  Revolution  to  the  time  of  George  First, 
the  current  price  for  the  dedication  of  a  play  varied  from 
five  to  ten  guineas  but  was  often  less  when  the  author 
happened  to  be  in  immediate  need. 

Nathaniel  Field  said  that  the  dedication  fee  was  forty 
shillings  and  he  dedicated  his  comedy,  A  Woman  is  a 
Weathercocke,  to  any  woman  "that  hath  been  no  weather- 
cocke";  he  comments,  "I  did  determine  not  to  have 
dedicated  my  play  to  anybody,  because  forty  shillings 
I  care  not  for,  and  above  few  or  none  will  bestow  on  these 
matters,  especially  falling  from  so  fameless  a  pen  as  mine  is 
yet."     (1612.) 

In  the  case  of  not  a  few  works  of  Erasmus  as  with  many 
other  books  of  the  time,  it  seems  evident  that  in  exchange 
for  the  dedication,  the  "patron"  of  literature  had  provided 
the  funds  requisite  for  the  printing  of  the  book,  or  sometimes 
even  for  the  support  of  the  author  while  it  was  being 
written. 

Hearne  tells  us  in  his  Diary  that  Lawrence  Eachard 
received  £300  from  George  I  for  the  dedication   of  his 


Introduction 


History  of  England,  and  Dr.  Hickes  a  hundred  guineas 
from  Prince  George  (afterwards  George  II)  for  the  dedica- 
tion of  his  Thesaurus.  On  the  other  hand  we  read  that 
Aristotle's  book  on  Animals,  dedicated  to  Pope  Sixtus  IV 
by  Theodore  Beza,  brought  to  Beza  only  the  cost  of  the 
binding. 

In  the  third  stage  we  revert  to  customs  resembHng  the 
first,  for  at  the  present  day  the  dedication  is  chiefly  used 
by  an  author  who  wishes  to  associate  his  work  with  some 
friend  or  person  greatly  loved,  or  admired,  a  favorite 
reader  with  whom  he  may  be  supposed  to  be  in  special 
sympathy.  Of  this  class  of  dedications  a  charming  authoress 
writes  to  a  friend:  "A  good  book  is  not  merely  a  book  but 
a  gathering  together  of  the  highest  of  the  thoughts  which, 
bom  in  our  minds,  escape  with  unfledged  wings  into  the 
great  open  world.  Many  of  these  go  free  forever  but  there 
are  those  among  them  which  leave  behind  shadow  and 
substance  of  themselves  and  become  books;  ideas  and 
aspirations  in  concrete  embodiment  for  the  permanent 
satisfaction  of  htmianity.  The  human  parent  of  a  worthy 
book  knows  well  its  heavenly  origin  and  rejoices  in  the 
rights  and  privileges  of  half-parentage.  Realising  that  the 
work  is  not  all  his  own  but  that  it  has  come  into  being 
•through  spiritual  influences  mediated  by  his  fellow-men, 
it  is  his  impulse  to  dedicate  his  book  to  the  one  in  whom  he 
sees  its  ideals  embodied,  or  to  those  upon  whose  sympathy 
and  insight  he  relies  to  receive  its  message,  or  to  whose 
action  he  looks  to  accomplish  its  purposes." 

Mr.  Gosse  calls  attention  to  the  interesting  fact  that  the 
sixteenth  and  seventeenth  century  writer  in  England  sold 
his  praises  not  alone  for  money  but  also  for  protection. 
Protection  was  equally  essential  to  an  ambitious  author, 
in  a  day  when  the  cost  of  producing  a  book  was  great,  the 
reading  pubHc  a  limited  one,  political  changes  frequent 
and  violent,  and  the  virtue  of  tolerance  for  opposed  or 
radical  opinions  all  but  unknown.     "Under  the  shelter  of 


Dedications 


the  little  Italianated  courts  of  the  Essexes  and  the  Pem- 
brokes,"  says  Mr,  Gosse,  "poetry  flourished  in  antagonism 
to  the  ruling  and  growing  Puritan  prejudices  of  the  English 
middle  classes." 

Within  very  obvious  limits,  dedications  have  a  real  if 
restricted  contribution  to  make  to  literary  history,  reflect- 
ing as  they  do  the  ideas  of  beauty  and  propriety,  and  the 
social  and  political  conditions  of  the  time  in  which  they 
were  composed.  Their  human  interest  is  greater  than  is 
generally  imagined.  Dedications  introduce  us  to  what 
Martineau  calls  "the  friendships  of  history;"  to  the  inti- 
macy of  the  family  and  friendly  circle,  to  the  struggles  and 
triumphs  of  the  life  of  the  soul.  Many  an  author  who 
never  wore  his  heart  on  his  sleeve  put  it  into  his  dedication, 
and  through  the  medium  of  this  humble  literary  instrument 
we  have  received  revelations  of  feeling,  messages  of  love, 
reverence,  and  loyalty,  which  we  could  ill  afford  to  lose. 
The  "  Platonic  Song  of  the  Soul,"  1642,  was  dedicated  by  its 
author,  Henry  More,  "a  novice  in  the  affairs  of  the  world," 
to  his  father  who  "from  my  childhood  turned  mine  ears  to 
Spenser's  rhymes,  entertaining  us  on  winter  nights  with 
that  incomparable  piece  of  his,  'The  Faery  Queen,'  a  Poem 
as  richly  fraught  with  divine  morality  as  fancy." 

The  book  of  Mr.  Wheatley,  pubHshed  in  1887,  has  not, 
so  far  as  I  have  been  able  to  ascertain,  had  a  successor. 
Wandering  through  a  vast  forest  of  dedications,  valueless 
and  valuable,  I  have  found  no  well  trodden  paths,  and  the 
arrangement  and  classification  of  the  subsequent  pages 
follows  no  precedent.  Most  of  the  dedications  are  from 
books  written  in  English,  but  a  few  are  translations  from 
the  Latin,  and  from  modern  European  languages.  The\^ 
have  been  chosen  either  for  their  intrinsic  merit,  or  as 
types,  and  repetition  has  been  avoided  as  far  as  possible. 
Occasionally  they  are  dedications,  not  only  of  books,  but 
of  single  poems  and  plays. 

The  many  curious  and  interesting  facts  in  connection 


Introduction 


with  the  history  of  dedications  have  made  the  study,  the 
results  of  which  are  here  recorded,  a  fascinating  pastime. 
Dedications  are  in  prose  or  in  verse;  they  are  placed  at  the 
beginning  or  at  the  end  of  a  book;  they  differ  in  different 
editions;  one  book  may  have  many  dedications.  "  Some- 
times authors  found  out,"  says  Wheatley,  "  that  they  had 
dedicated  their  books  to  the  wrong  people  and  they  can- 
celled their  praises  or  transferred  them  to  new  men.  Thus 
dedications  to  Cromwell  were  not  in  favor  after  the  Resto- 
ration." Numerous  dedications  were  also  resorted  to  to 
increase  the  revenue  from  the  same  work.  An  example 
has  been  found  of  a  book  having  twelve  dedications  and 
fifty  or  sixty  complimentary  inscriptions.  Counsel  and 
Advice  to  all  Builders,  by  Sir  Balthasar  Gerbier,  had  forty- 
one  dedicatory  epistles  to  the  Queen  mother,  the  Duke  of 
York  and  a  long  Hst  of  others,  ending  with  "  the  courteous 
reader."  La  Libreria  by  Doni  was  dedicated  to  persons 
whose  names  began  with  the  first  letter  of  the  epistle,  so 
that  a  book  of  only  forty-five  pages  is  dedicated  to  twenty 
people.  "  Pope  has  the  credit  of  having  put  an  end  to  the 
old  abject  dedication;  but  he  had  found  a  more  profitable 
patron  in  the  public  who  subscribed  for  copies  of  his  works." 
In  modern  times  authors  have  dedicated  several  books  to 
one  person.  Chesterton  dedicated  five  of  his  books  to  his 
wife,  prefacing  each  volume  with  the  same  poem. 

In  the  case  of  the  very  old  inscriptions,  a  certain  charm  is 
added  by  the  yellow  paper  or  parchment,  the  curious  type 
and  the  archaic  spelling  which  it  is  impossible  to  preserve  in 
modern  print.  As  Mr.  Wheatley  says,  "the  aroma  seems  to 
escape  as  one  uncorks  the  bottle."  The  dulness  of  some  of 
the  long  epistolary  dedications  is  appalling.  Witness  Jeremy 
Taylor's  Holy  Living  and  Dying  in  two  editions.  Each  has  a 
long  dedication  to  the  Earl  of  Carbery,  and  one  of  these  is 
a  melancholy  epistle  of  twelve  pages  telling  how  to  die  well.  * 

'  This  may  have  been  suggested  to  Taylor  by  a  translation  of  a  tract 
from  the  Latin  by  Caxton,  which  is  entitled  Ars  Moriendi,  "a  little 


Dedications 


In  England  in  the  seventeenth  century,  strange  practices 
grew  up  about  the  custom  of  selHng  fraudulent  dedications. 
The  person  who  practiced  the  trade  of  falsifying  dedications 
was  called  a  "falconer,"  and  his  assistant  was  known  as  a 
"mongrel."  "The  trick,"  says  Mr.  Gosse,  "was  to  travel 
round  the  country  with  samples  of  a  forthcoming  book,  to 
which  an  epistle  dedicatory  was  prefixed,  but  with  no  name, 
the  dedication  being  printed  on  a  separate  and  loose 
sheet  of  which  the  falconer  carried  a  large  store  of  copies." 
Arrived  at  the  mansion  of  a  local  magnate,  the  mongrel, 
who  carried  a  hand  press,  filled  in  the  name  of  the  particular 
noble,  and  the  book  was  presented  as  dedicated  to  him 
alone.  Having  extracted  from  him  all  the  recompense 
possible,  the  two  proceeded  to  a  new  district  in  pursuit  of 
some  other  knight  or  nobleman  who  might,  in  like  manner, 
fall  a  victim  to  flattery. 

In  France  at  the  same  period,  all  poets  who  did  not  possess 
independent  means  dedicated  their  works  to  patrons. 
Volumes  could  be  filled  with  odes  to  Louis  XIV  and  to 
Richelieu,  Maynard  openly  offered  the  King  eternal 
fame  if  he  would  pay  him  enough. 

The  custom  of  dedication  is  very  old  in  Germany. 
Eugene  Isolani  says:  "German  authors  dedicated  their 
works  to  those  who  could  bestow  orders  upon  them,  and 
musicians  were  even  more  given  to  flattering  dedications 
than  poets,"  Some  dedications  have  been  made  from 
altruistic  motives.  Johann  Kasper  Lavater,  in  1769, 
dedicated  a  translation  of  Bonnet's  Evidences  of  Christianity 
to  his  friend,  the  Jewish  philosopher,  Moses  Mendelssohn, 
in  the  hope  that  he  would  be  converted  by  it.  The  Span- 
iards were  very  fond  of  dedications. 

In  Italy  as  early  as  the  fourteenth  century  Petrarch  set 
a  noble  example  of  independence  when  he  refused  to  dedi- 
cate his  works  to  the  Emperor  Charles  IV  until  that  monarch 

treatise  short  and  abridged,  speaking  of  the  arte  and  craft  to  knowe 
well  to  dye."     "For  the  helthe  of  the  soul." 


Introduction 


should  have  done  something  to  deserve  the  honor.  Among 
English  writers  of  more  modern  days  whose  fulsome  dedi- 
cations went  to  the  opposite  extreme  of  flattery,  Dryden  is 
said  to  be  the  chief  of  sinners.  He  lavished  a  profusion  of 
praises  upon  men  and  women,  often  unworthy  of  any  praise 
at  all,  and  it  is  difficult  to  forgive  the  bad  taste  and  absurd- 
ity of  hyperbolical  language  applied  to  those  whose  despi- 
cable character  is  well  known.  In  this  connection  one  is 
reminded  of  Mrs.  Carter.  This  authoress  in  her  Proposals 
for  the  Art  of  Painting  asserts,  "the  dedication  will  be  com- 
posed by  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Carter,  who  has  read  over  five 
and  forty  thousand  dedications,  from  whence  she  has 
extracted  a  quintessence  of  all  manner  of  good  qualities, 
which  are  now  offered  to  any  person  who  will  take  the 
greatest  number  of  subscriptions;  and  to  obviate  any 
scruple  that  such  well  disposed  persons  may  have  concern- 
ing the  rightful  owners,  it  is  hereby  declared  that  of  all  the 
five  and  forty  fine  things  contained  in  each  of  the  said  forty 
thousand  dedications,  not  one  thereof  did  in  any  wise 
belong  to  its  respective  subject." 

Dr.  Johnson  was  famous  for  writing  dedications,  and 
once  told  Boswell  that  he  believed  he  had  dedicated  to  the 
royal  family  "all  round."  He  also  had  not  the  slightest 
objection  to  composing  compliments  to  be  signed  by  others. 
He  never,  however,  disgraced  himself  by  abject  flattery, 
and  when  his  own  patron.  Lord  Chesterfield,  fell  short  of 
Johnson's  expectations  in  the  amount  which  he  contributed 
to  the  publication  of  the  famous  dictionary,  Dr.  Johnson 
penned  his  scathing  definition  of  a  patron:  "Is  it  not,  my 
lord,  one  who  looks  with  unconcern  on  a  man  struggling 
tor  life  in  the  water,  and  when  he  has  reached  the  ground 
encumbers  him  with  help  ?  The  notice  which  you  have  been 
pleased  to  take  of  my  labours,  had  it  been  early,  had  been 
kind;  but  it  has  been  delayed  till  I  am  indifferent,  and 
cannot  enjoy  it;  till  I  am  solitary,  and  cannot  impart  it; 
till  I  am  known  and  do  not  want  it." 


Dedications 


Byron  and  Shelley  often  wrote  dedications  and  were 
usually  very  happy  in  the  composition  of  their  addresses 
to  their  friends.  Keats  and  Scott  also  made  use  of  dedi- 
cations. We  find  but  two  from  Thackeray's  pen,  and  three 
from  that  of  Dickens,  while  Bulwer  Lytton  wrote  dedica- 
tions for  ten  of  his  twenty-three  works,  most  of  them  long 
and  in  the  form  of  letters. 

With  the  coming  of  the  new  democratic  spirit,  the  old 
servile  and  ornate  dedication  seems  to  have  passed  away. 
"Tennyson's  grandiloquent  dedication  of  the  Idylls  to  the 
Prince  Consort,"  writes  Edna  Kenton  in  the  Bookman, 
"is  almost  the  last  of  the  blindly  reverential  dedications 
to  the  merely  exalted  of  the  earth." 

It  is  a  far  cry  from  the  lavish  personal  adulation  of 
Dryden  to  the  sententiousness  of  Coventry  Patmore's 
dedication  of  The  Angel  in  the  House: 

"This  Poem 

is  inscribed 

to 

the  memory  of  Her 

by  whom  and  for  whom  I  became  a  poet — " 

to  the  humor  of  Franklin  Adams's  dedication  of  Toboggan- 
ing on  Parnassus: 

"To  B.  L.  T. 
Guide,    philosopher,    hut   friend," — 

or  to  the  breadth  and  nobility  of  feeling  expressed  in 
President  Wilson's  recent  dedication  of  his  book  on  the 
New  Freedom: 

"To 

Every  man  and  woman  who  may  derive  from  it,  in  however 

small  a  degree,  the  impulse  of  unselfish  public  service." 


Uo  'Beits 


Cazton's  Eneydos,  1490.    Englisht  from  the  French  Liure 
des  EneydeS)  1483* 

The  French  Translator's  Prologue: 

"To  the  honour  of  god  almyghty  and  to  the  gloryous 
vyrgyne  Marye,  moder  of  alle  grace  and  to  the  vtylyte  & 
prouifyt  of  all  the  policye  mondayne,  this  present  booke, 
compyled  by  virgyle,  ryght  subtyl  and  Ingenyous  oratour 
&  poete  Intytuled  Eneydos.  hath  be  translated  oute  of 
latyn  in-to  comyn  langage  In  whiche  may  alle  valyaunt 
prynces  and  other  nobles  see  many  valorous  fayttes  of 
armes.  And  also  this  present  boke  is  necessarye  to  alle 
cytezens  &  habytaunts  in  townes  and  castellis  for  they  shal 
see,  How  somtyme  troye  the  graunte  and  many  other 
places  stronge  and  inexpugnable,  haue  ben  be-sieged 
sharpely  &  assayled,  And  also  coragyously  and  valyauntly 
defended  and  the  sayd  boke  is  atte  this  present  tyme  moche 
necessarye  for  to  enstructe  smale  and  grete,  for  euerych 
in  his  ryght  to  kepe  &  defende  For  a  thynge  more  noble  is 
to  dye  than  vylanously  to  be  subdued." 

(From  the  reprint  for  the  Early  English  Text  Society,  Extra  Series, 
LVII). 

The  concluding  words  of  Caxton's  own  prologue  form  a  dedica- 
tion to  "the  hye  bom,  my  tocomynge  naturell  &  soverayn  lord, 
Arthur,  by  the  grace  of  God,  Prynce  of  Walys,  Due  of  Comewayll, 
&  Erie  of  Chester,"  etc. 

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12  Dedications 


A  Declaration  concerning  the  Proceedings  with  the  States 
Generall,  of  the  United  Provinces  of  the  Low  Countreys, 
in  the  Cause  of  D.  Conradus  Vorstius.    By  James  I.    1612. 

"To  the  Honour  of  our  Lord  and  Saviour  Jesus  Christ, 
The  Eternal  Sonne  of  the  Eternall  Father,  the  only 
GeavGpuxoc;,  Mediatour,  and  Reconciler  of  Mankind,  in  signe 
of  Thankfulness,  His  most  humble,  and  most  obliged  Ser- 
vant, James  by  the  Grace  of  God,  King  of  Great  Britaine, 
France  and  Ireland,  Defender  of  the  Faith,  Doeth  dedicate, 
and  Consecrate  this  his  Declaration." 

It  was  his  "zeale  to  the  glory  of  God"  that  led  James  to  request 
the  States  General  to  banish  "a  wretched  heretique,  or  rather 
Atheist  out  of  their  dominions,  named  D.  Conradus  Vorstius." 
His  motives  were  unfortunately  misinterpreted  by  "a  sort  of 
people,  whose  corrupted  stomacke  tumes  all  good  nourishment 
into  bad  and  pernicious  humors;"  and  he  found  it  desirable  to 
publish  in  full  the  negotiations  in  the  matter,  with  his  reasons  for 
interference.  Edmund  Gosse  {Elizabethan  Dedications  of  Books, 
Harper's  Monthly  Mag.  for  July,  1902)  writes  that  he  found  no 
instance  in  English  earlier  than  this  of  a  dedication  to  the  Deity. 

Synopsis  Papismi.     By  Andrew  Willet.     1613. 

"  To  the  Allpowerful  Master,  God  the  Most  High,  to 
the  most  munificent  and  most  benigne  Saviour,  Our  Lord 
Jesus  Christ:  the  blessed  Sacrament." 

The  writings  of  Willet,  who  was  tutor  to  Prince  Henry  and  "a 
frequent  preacher  before  the  Court,"  are  said  to  have  been  influen- 
tial in  keeping  many  of  wavering  minds  from  leaving  the  Church 
of  England  to  join  the  Puritans. 

Utriusque  Cosmi  .  .  .  Historia.     By  Robert  Find.     16 17. 

"To  God,  the  most  High,  my  incomprehensible  creator, 
may  there  be  glory,  praise,  honor,  blessing,  and  triumphant 
victory,  world  without  end.     Amen." 

Flud  also  has  a  dedication  to  the  most  powerful  Prince,  James, 
"which  led,  through  a  slip  in  Flud's  Latin,  to  his  being  accused  of 
having  attributed  deity  to  the  earthly  monarch."     (Gosse.) 


To  Deity  13 


The  Church-Porch.  By  George  Herbert.  (In  The  Temple, 
1633) 

THE  DEDICATION 

"Lord,  my  first  fruits  present  themselves  to  thee. 
Yet  not  mine  neither:  for  from  thee  they  came 
And  must  return.     Accept  of  them  and  me, 
And  make  us  strive  who  shall  sing  best  thy  name. 

Turn  their  eyes  hither  who  shall  make  a  gain. 

Theirs  who  shall  hurt  themselves  or  me,  refrain." 

The  Printers  to  the  Reader:  "The  dedication  of  this  work  having 
been  made  by  the  authour  to  the  Divine  Majestic  onely,  how 
should  we  now  presume  to  interest  any  mortall  man  in  the  patron- 
age of  it?  Much  lesse  think  we  it  meet  to  seek  the  recommenda- 
tion of  the  Muses  for  that  which  himself  was  confident  to  have 
been  inspired  by  a  diviner  breath  than  flows  from  Helicon.  The 
world  therefore  shall  receive  it  in  that  naked  simplicitie  with  which 
he  left  it,  without  any  addition  either  of  support  or  ornament  more 
than  is  included  in  it  self." 

The  Penitent  Pilgrim.     By  Richard  Brathwaite.     1641. 

"To  that  Immaculate  Lamb  Christ  Jesus,  the  sole 
Saviour  and  Receiver  of  every  penitent  sinner,  hath  this 
poore  pilgrime  humbly  here  presented  these  his  Penitential 
Teares." 

The  book  has  an  engraved  frontispiece  of  an  aged  man  journeying 
barefoot,  with  bottle  and  staflF,  scallop  shell  in  his  hat,  his  loins 
girded,  and  beneath  his  feet  the  inscription,  "Few  and  evill  have 
the  dayes  of  my  life  been." 

La  Verite  de  la  Religion  Reformle.  By  Jean  de  Croi. 
1645. 

"To  your  Lord  Jesus  Christ." 
(From  Wheatley's  Dedication  of  Books.) 

Psyche :  or  Love*s  Mysterie ;  in  XX.  Cantos :  Displaying  the 
Intercourse  betwixt  Christ  and  the  Soule.  By  Joseph 
Beaumont.     London,  1648. 

"  Into  the  most  sacred  Treasurie  of  the  Praise  and  Glorie 


14  Dedications 


of  Incarnate  God,  the  World's  most  Merciftdl  Redeemer, 
The  Unworthiest  of  his  Majestie's  Creatures,  in  all  possible 
Prostrate  Veneration,  Beggs  Leave  to  Cast  This  His 
Dedicated  Mite." 

The  Civill  Warres  of  England,  Briefly  Related  from  his 
Majesties  First  Setting  up  his  Standard,  1641,  to  this 
Present  Personall  Hopefull  Treaty.  By  John  Leycester. 
1649. 

"  To  the  Honour  and  Glory  of  the  Infinite,  Immense, 
and  Incomprehensible  Majesty  of  Jehovah,  the  Fountaine 
of  all  Excellencies,  the  Lord  of  Hosts,  the  Giver  of  all 
Victories,  and  the  God  of  Peace. 

"If  that  one  Star  in  vast  circumference. 

So  much  exceeds  the  globe  of  earth  and  seas, 
And  if  the  soule  more  vast  by  intelligence 

Exceeds  the  magnitude  of  Pleiades; 
What  admiration  then  to  him  belongs. 

What  trembling  joy,  what  duty,  love  and  feare. 
What  exaltation  in  all  psalms  and  songs?"  etc. 

"By  J.  O.  Ley. 
"  A  small  crumme  of  mortality. 

"Septemb.  23,  1648." 

Leycester,  a  staunch  Puritan,  declares  that  he  is  giving  a  true 
historical  relation  of  "our  late  warlike  exploits:  all  which  have  not 
a  colour,  but  a  reality  of  true  notions;  but  in  the  weightiest  motive 
to  reading  as  will  make  the  most  clamorous  Malignant  as  silent 
as  a  Seriphian  Frog." 

The  Dividing  of  the  Hoofif:  or.  Seeming  Contradictions 
throughout  Sacred  Scriptures,  Distinguish'd,  Resolved* 
and  Apply'd.     By  William  Streat.     1654. 

"To  God." 


To  Deity  15 


Silex  Scintillans:  or  Sacred  Poems  and  Private  Ejacula- 
tions.    By  Henry  Vaughan,  Silurist.     London,  1650. 

THE  DEDICATION 

"  My  God !     Thou  that  didst  die  for  me, 
These  Thy  death's  fruits  I  offer  Thee: 
Death  that  to  me  was  Hfe  and  Hght, 
But  dark  and  deep  pangs  to  Thy  sight. 
Some  drops  of  Thy  all-quick'ning  blood 
Fell  on  my  heart;  those  made  it  bud, 
And  put  forth  thus,  though.  Lord,  before 
The  Ground  was  curs'd  and  void  of  store. 
Indeed  I  had  some  here  to  hire, 
Which  long  resisted  Thy  desire, 
That  ston'd  Thy  servants,  and  did  move 
To  have  Thee  murder'd  for  Thy  love; 
But  Lord,  I  have  expell'd  them  and  so  bent, 
Beg  Thou  wouldst  take  Thy  tenant's  rent." 

In  the  1655  edition,  two  more  stanzas  were  added,  and  the  poem 
was  introduced  thus:  "To  my  most  merciful,  my  most  loving,  and 
dearly  loved  Redeemer,  the  ever  blessed,  the  only  Holy  and  Just 
One,  Jesus  Christ." 

A  Candle  in  the  Dark;  or,  a  Treatise  concerning  the  Nature 
of  Witches  and  Witchcraft:  Being  Advice  to  Judges, 
Sheriffes,  Justices  of  the  Peace,  and  Grand  Jury  Men, 
what  to  do  before  they  passe  sentence  on  such  as  are 
arraigned  for  their  lives  as  Witches.  By  Thomas  Ady, 
M.A.     1656. 

Dedicated  "To  the  Prince  of  the  Kings  of  the  Earth." 
(With  an  entreaty  that  the  Holy  Spirit  may  possess  the 
understanding  of  whoever  shall  open  the  book.) 

There  is  upon  the  title-page  an  emblematic  cut  representing  an 
arm  issuing  from  the  clouds,  bearing  a  lighted  candle. 

The  following  reference  to  this  work  by  Thomas  Ady  is  found  in 
An  Historical  Essay  concerning  Witchcraft  by  Francis  Hutchinson, 
D.D.,  London,  1718. 


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"When  one  Mr.  Burroughs,  a  clergyman,  who  some  few  years 
since  was  hang'd  in  New  England  as  a  Wizzard,  stood  upon  his 
Tryal,  he  puU'd  out  of  his  Pocket  a  Leaf  that  he  had  got  of  Mr. 
Ady's  Book  to  prove  that  the  Scripture  Witchcrafts  were  not  like 
ours:  And  as  that  Defence  was  not  able  to  save  him,  I  humbly 
offer  my  Book  as  an  Argument  on  the  behalf  of  all  such  miserable 
People  who  may  ever  in  time  to  come  be  drawn  into  the  same  Danger 
in  our  Nation." 


Pilgrims  Progress.     By  John  Bunyan.     (Counterfeit  2nd 
part.)     1683. 

"  To  Him  that  is  Higher  than  the  Highest:  The  Almighty 
and  everlasting  Jehovah,  who  is  the  Terror  and  Confusion 
of  the  Hardened  and  Impenitent  World;  and  the  Hope 
and  Happiness  of  all  Converted  and  Returning  Sinners; 
Most  Mighty  and  Eternal  God,  Thou  King  of  Kings  and 
Prince  of  Peace." 

Then  follows  a  long  prayer  of  dedication  and  supplication  to  be 
made  "an  instrument  of  doing  good  to  my  fellow  Pilgrims." 

Tetelestai :  The  Final  Close :  A  Poem.     By  David  Bradberry. 
1794. 

"  To  the  most  Sublime,  most  High  and  Mighty,  most 
Puissant,  most  Sacred,  most  Faithful,  most  Gracious,  most 
Catholic,  most  Sincere,  most  Reverend,  and  most  Righteous 
Majesty,  Jehovah  Emanuel,  by  indefeasible  right  Sover- 
eign of  the  Universe,  and  Prince  of  the  Kings  of  the 
Earth,  Governor-General  of  the  World,  Chief  Shepherd  or 
Archbishop  of  Souls,  Chief  Justice  of  Final  Appeal,  Judge 
of  the  Last  Assize,  Father  of  Mercies  and  Friend  of  Man, 
This  Poem  (a  feeble  testimony  of  his  obligation  and  hopes) 
is  gratefully  and  humbly  presented  by  His  Majesty's  highly 
favoured  but  very  unworthy  subject  and  servant  The 
Author." 


To  Deity  17 


A  Song  of  America,  and  Minor  Lyrics.     By  V.  Voldo.    New 
York.     1876. 

DEDICATION 

"These — unto  thee,  Lord,  Life  and  Love  of  things, 
First  leaves  and  lispings  of  Thyself  in  me, 
First  flashes  of  that  fair  self  mine  to  see — 
Bring  I  as  one  unto  his  Parent  brings 
His  fledgling  offerings." 

&c.     &c. 

Uarda :  A  Romance  of  Ancient  Egypt.     By  Georg  M.  Ebers. 
From  the  German  by  Clara  Bell.     1880. 

DEDICATION 

"Thou  knowest  well  from  what  this  book  arose. 
When  suffering  seized  and  held  me  in  its  grasp, 
Thy  fostering  hand  released  me  from  its  grasp; 
And  from  amid  the  thorns  there  bloomed  a  rose. 
Air,  dew,  and  sunshine  were  bestowed  by  Thee, 
And  Thine  it  is,  without  these  lines  from  me." 

Christus  Victor.    A  Student's  Reverie.    By  Henry  Nehe- 
miah  Dodge.     New  York,  1899. 

"World-Saviour,  see  me  at  Thy  feet 
Awe-stricken ;  in  my  hands,  for  Thine  unmeet, 
My  heart's  best  treasure  dearly  bought 
With  tears  and  travail,  and  with  trembling  brought. 
If  in  this  casket  Thou  shouldst  find 
Aught  to  adorn  Thy  way  or  serve  mankind, 
Though  not  frankincense,  myrrh,  or  gold, — 
Tribute  of  star-led  caravans  of  old, — 
Take  it,  0  Heart  of  Love  Divine, 
And  use  it  as  Thou  wilt,  for  it  is  Thine." 


i8  Dedications  to  Deity 


One  other  dedication,  mentioned  in  the  Dictionnaire  Larousse, 
should  not  be  omitted  from  this  chapter:  Hillerin,  the  theologian, 
a  contemporary  of  Tallemant  des  R6aux  (1619-1692),  who  relates 
the  fact,  dedicated  a  theological  work  to  the  Trinity,  and  started 
his  epistle  with  the  address — Madame! 


II 
Zo  Ube  V>ivQin  Obars 


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II 
Uo  ttbe  IDirain  (Hav^ 

General  History  of  Peru,  Part  2.    By  Garcilaso  de  la  Vega, 
El  Inca.     Cordova,  1617. 

The  book  is  dedicated:  "To  the  Most  Glorious  Virgin 
Mary,  daughter,  mother,  and  virginal  wife  of  her  Creator, 
supreme  princess  of  all  creatures;  by  the  Inca,  Garcilaso 
de  la  Vega,  thy  unworthy  servant,  in  adoration  of  thy 
worship. 

"The  ancients  consecrated  their  arms  and  writings  to 
their  goddess,  Pallas,  to  whom  they  believed  them  to  be 
due.  I,  with  greater  veneration  and  worship,  dedicate  the 
Spanish  arms  and  my  poor  writings  to  the  Virgin  of  virgins, 
the  Bellona  of  the  church  militant,  the  Minerva  of  the 
church  triumphant,  believing  them  to  be  thine  by  a  thou- 
sand titles.  It  was  thy  celestial  favor  that  enabled  the 
strong  armies  of  noble  Spain,  placing  their  peerless  warriors 
in  the  fighting  columns,  to  open  as  by  the  strength  of 
Hercules  the  gates  of  land  and  water,  and  the  road  to  the 
conquest  and  conversion  of  the  rich  provinces  of  Peru. 
The  victorious  lions  of  Castile  owe  much  to  so  sovereign  a 
Lady  for  having  made  them  lords  of  the  principal  part  of 
the  New  World,  more  than  a  fourth  of  the  globe,  by  deeds 
and  prowess  more  brave  and  heroic  than  those  of  the 
Alexanders  of  Greece  and  the  Caesars  of  Rome.  Not  less 
indebted  are  the  conquered  Peruvians,  for,  by  going  out 
with  the  favor  of  heaven  as  conquerors  of  the  devil,  sin, 
and  hell,  they  receive  one  God,  one  faith,  one  baptism. 

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22  Dedications 


Then  I,  a  devoted  Indian,  although  most  unworthy,  ought 
to  dedicate  my  history  of  the  accompHshments  of  the 
Spanish  arms  to  my  most  worthy  tutelary. 

"To  this  I  am  moved  by  three  reasons:  first,  by  the 
abundance  of  gifts  and  natural  graces  by  virtue  of  which,  as 
the  mother  of  God,  thou  hast  an  almost  infinite  superiority 
over  all  the  saints  together,  and,  preserved  from  all  per- 
sonal and  original  sin,  dost  exceed  in  grace  and  in  glory  the 
highest  cherubim  and  seraphim ;  second,  by  the  benefits  and 
mercies,  above  all  reckoning  or  appraisement,  received  from 
thy  royal  hand — among  them,  the  conversion  to  our  faith 
of  my  mother  and  lady,  more  illustrious  and  excellent  by 
the  waters  of  holy  baptism  than  by  the  royal  blood  of  many 
Incas  and  Peruvian  kings ;  and  finally,  by  reason  of  paternal 
devotion,  inherited  with  the  name  and  nobility  of  the 
famous  Garcilaso,  knight  of  the  Ave  Maria,  Spanish  Mars, 
whose  triumph  was  more  than  Roman,  and  whose  trophy, 
more  glorious  than  that  of  Romulus,  was  won  from  the 
Moors  in  la  Vega  de  Toledo  and  supplied  the  surname  of 
de  la  Vega. 

"So,  with  these  considerations  and  motives,  I  offer  most 
humbly  to  Your  Sacred  Majesty,  O  Most  August  Empress 
of  Heaven  and  Earth,  this  second  part  of  my  royal  commen- 
taries, now  more  royal  by  being  dedicated  to  the  queen  of 
angels  and  of  the  men,  who,  like  a  true  Hercules  or  Christian 
Achilles,  have  subjugated,  with  superhuman  force  and 
valor,  in  many  notable  battles  and  victories,  the  rich  empire 
of  the  New  World  to  the  temporal  crown  of  the  Catholic 
kings  and  to  the  spiritual  crown  of  the  king  of  kings,  Jesus 
Christ,  and  his  vicar  the  Pope,  and  consequently,  to  thee 
of  the  twelve  stars,  the  queen  of  heaven  and  earth,  shod 
with  the  moon  and  clothed  with  the  sun.  To  thee  I  pray, 
with  all  my  heart,  on  my  knees  before  the  celestial  throne 
of  the  wise  and  peaceful  Solomon,  thy  son,  the  Prince  of 
Peace  and  King  of  Glory,  at  whose  side,  as  mother,  in  a 
seat  of  majesty.  Thy  Holiness  presidest  over  our  prayers. 


To  The  Virgin  Mary  23 


O  deign  to  accept  this  offering,  not  from  any  talent  that  it 
shows,  but  as  a  small  token  of  true  devotion,  and  the  reward 
thou  wilt  confer  by  accepting  it  will  be  much  better  than 
that  of  Xerxes  to  the  rustic  Persian.  I  make  account  of 
my  person  and  goods,  in  the  innermost  depths  of  my  soul, 
to  Your  Holiness,  O  Image  of  my  devotion,  and  of  perfection 
so  divine  that  the  Supreme  Maker,  God,  exemplifying  in 
thee  His  wisdom  and  power  from  the  very  birth  of  thy 
being  with  the  splendors  of  His  Grace,  preserved  thee  from 
the  blot  of  the  original  offense  of  Adam ;  and  as  there  came 
to  be  manifested  a  likeness  and  resemblance  of  the  new 
celestial  Adam,  and  the  divine  beauty  of  so  perfect  a  model, 
He  thought  it  worthy  to  preserve  us  from  the  stain  of  the 
original  offense.  Therefore,  Most  Pure  Conception,  with- 
out sin,  forever  and  without  end,  let  men  glorify  thee  and 
angels  sing  thy  praise." 

(From  the  Spanish.) 

The  Immaculate  Conception,  a  Poem  Dedicated  in  Honour 
of  the  Virgin.     By  Xavier  Debouge.     1855. 

"To  thee,  who  from  the  height  of  the  heavens, 

O  divine  Mary, 
See  the  pious  transports  of  my  ravished  soul, 
Deign  by  your  succour  to  enfiame  my  ardour, 
And  render  my  genius  equal  to  thy  splendor! 
But  what  mortal  ever,  what-so-e'er  the  passion 

which  animates  him, 
Can  make  for  thy  praise  a  work  sufficiently 

sublime?" 

The  Immaculate  Conception  of  the  Very  Saintly  Virgin. 
By  A.  Maurel.     1866. 

"Thou  art  altogether  beautiful,  0  Mary! 
And  thou  hast  not  been  stained  by  the  original  fault. 


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O  Mary,  conceived  without  sin, 
Pray  for  us 

Who  have  recourse  to  thee." 
(From  the  French.) 

The   Immaculate   Conception  in   the   XIX   Century.     By 
Giuseppe  Magno.     1877. 

"  To  Mary  Immaculate  and  to  her  immortal  high  priests 
the  author  dedicates  and  offers  this  devotedly  to  both." 

Mary  Immaculate,  Mother  of  God.    By  the  Reverend  T.  H. 
Kinane.     Dublin,  1878. 

"To  the  immaculate,  ever  sinless,  ever  Virgin  Mary, 
holy  Mother  of  God : 

To  the  purest,  the  most  holy,  the  most  exalted  soul 
ever  created  by  the  Almighty : 

To  thee,  'the  Glory  of  Jerusalem,'  'the  Joy  of  Israel,* 
'  the  honour  of  our  people : ' 

To  thee,  'fair  as  the  moon,'  'bright  as  the  sun,'  'Beau- 
tiful,' 'sweet  and  comely  as  Jerusalem:' 

To  thee,  'garden  enclosed,'  'fountain  sealed,'  'work  of 
the  Most  High,'  'the  only  one,'  'perfect  one,'  'full  of 
grace,'  and  'blessed  among  women:' 

To  thee,  'the  delight  of  the  Blessed  Trinity,'  'the 
tabernacle  of  the  Holy  Ghost,'  'the  Virgin  Mother  of  the 
Redeemer : ' 

To  thee,  the  'Refuge  of  sinners,'  the  '  Mother  of  Mercy,' 
the  '  Health  of  the  weak,'  and  '  Comfortress  of  the  afflicted : ' 

In  heartfelt  thanksgiving  for  all  the  graces  received  from 
thy  most  adorable  Son  Jesus,  through  thy  intercession : 

In  reparation  for  all  sins  committed,  and  graces  abused 
during  life: 

In  petition  for  thy  all  powerful  help  at  every  moment  of 
life,  but  more  especially  in  temptation  and  at  the  awful 
moment  of  death,  this  little  book  is  most  affectionately 
and  most  reverentially  dedicated." 


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The  Sweet  Mystery  of  the  Immaculate  Conception  of  the 
Virgin  Contemplated  in  the  Magnificat.  ...  By  Marcel- 
lino  da  Civezza.     1878. 

"To  thee,  sweet  Mary,  true  Mother  of  God  and  my 
Mother,  full  of  compassion,  be  consecrated  this  second  edi- 
tion of  the  poor  miserable  thing  that  I  knew  how  to  stam- 
mer of  the  very  great  worth  of  thy  divine  dignity,  which 
is  the  foundation  and  the  crown  of  all  thine  ineffable  glory." 

(From  the  Latin.) 

Rhythms  and  Songs  Gathered  from  Various  Sources  in 
Honor  of  Mary  the  Virgin  Immaculate  in  the  First  Year 
of  her  Jubilee  MDCCCLXXXIX. 

"These  rhythms  and  songs 
to  thee,  holy  Virgin,  Mother  of  God, 
certain  ancients  fitly  composed, 
thus  furnishing  a  prelude  to  the  most  auspicious 
decree  by  which  twenty  five  years 
ago  thou  wast  solemnly  declared 
to  be  from  thine  origin  free  from  stain. 

"Haste  thee,  O  thou  that  art  truly  blessed 
above  all  others,  although  so  many 
peoples  have  pursued  thee  with 
praises  continually  from  of  old; 
even  if  the  inhabitants  of  Parma 
celebrating  thy  privilege,  the  greatest 
of  all,  have  now  for  a  long  time 
honored  thee  with  standards,  tablets, 
pictures  and  the  rebuilding  of  temples." 

Treatise  concerning  the  Blessed  Virgin  Mary,  Mother  of 
God.     By  Alexio  Maria  Lepicier.     1901. 

"To  Mary 
Of  God  and  of  men 
Mother  Immaculate." 


Ill 
XCo  IRosaltg 


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Ill 

Uo  IRopalts 

Ludus    Saccorum.     By    J.    de    Cessolis.     1360.    French 
translation  by  Jean  de  Vignay. 

PROLOGUE 

"To  the  right  noble  and  excellent  prince  John  of  France, 
Duke  of  Normandie  and  Auvergne  (?),  son  of  Philip  by  the 
grace  of  God  King  of  France,  Friar  John  of  Vignay,  your 
humble  monk,  along  with  the  rest  of  your  servants,  wishes 
you  peace,  holy  joy,  and  victory  over  your  foes.  Beloved 
and  redoubtable  Lord,  in  as  much  as  I  have  heard  and  am 
convinced  that  you  gladly  see  and  hear  things  profitable 
and  honourable  and  which  may  tend  to  the  establishment 
of  good  manners,  I  have  done  into  French  from  the  Latin 
a  little  book  which  came  recently  into  my  hand,  where 
divers  testimonies  and  sayings  of  doctors  and  philosophers 
and  poets  and  ancient  sages  are  recounted  and  applied  to 
the  morality  of  nobles  and  commons  in  accordance  with 
the  game  of  chess,  which  book,  most  puissant  and  most 
redoutable  Lord,  I  have  done  in  the  name  and  under  the 
shadow  of  yourself,  for  the  which  thing,  beloved  Sir,  I 
beseech  and  beg  you,  out  of  the  goodness  of  your  heart, 
that  you  deign  to  receive  this  book  in  good  part,  as  from  a 
greater  master  than  myself,  for  my  fond  endeavor  to  do  what 
I  can  to  the  best  of  my  ability  ought  to  be  imputed  to  me 
for  the  deed.  And  in  order  more  clearly  to  proceed  in  this 
work,  I  have  ordained  that  the  chapters  of  the  book  be 
written  out  and  set  at  the  beginning,  that  the  reader  may 
more  plainly  see  the  material  whereof  the  said  book  treats." 

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Textbook  of  Arithmetic.     By  Rollandus.     1424. 

"  To  the  most  illustrious  and  most  serene  Prince  the 
most  dread  Lord,  the  Lord  John,  paternal  imcle  of  our  lord 
the  King  of  France  and  England,  Regent  of  the  realm  of 
France,  Duke  of  Bedford,  Rollando  of  Lisbon,  physician, 
to  the  writer  of  your  Highness,  has  written  in  fulfillment 
of  his  oath. 

"Most  famous  Prince,  imder  whose  happy  dukedom  all 
France  happily  increases  with  a  certain  high  consent  of 
the  people,  as  beseems  a  Prince  ruling  righteously,  in  you 
charity  bums  within,  piety  gleams  without,  and  science 
sheds  its  rays  both  ways.  Who  purer  in  feeling?  Who 
more  abundant  in  well-doing?  Who  more  certain  in  clear- 
ness of  counsel?  I  say,  weighing  my  meaning,  that  you 
spend  your  treasures  as  you  might  scatter  ashes.  You 
immolate  yourself  as  a  sacrifice  in  incessant  labors.  In 
order  that  you  might  prepare  peace  for  the  subjects  of  our 
Lord  the  King  of  France  and  England  and  might  as  Duke 
lead  the  realm  of  France  far  from  the  storms  of  war,  by  a 
divine  arrangement  you  were  deputed  to  the  rule  of  the 
realm  to  the  general  satisfaction  at  a  time  when  all  hope 
of  human  counsel  had  failed.  Nor  has  any  lapse  of  human 
faith  leavened  your  most  dread  dominion.  It  is  to  be  hoped 
that  by  your  rule  of  peace  the  realms  of  France  and  England 
may  receive  their  liberty.  It  certainly  has  deserved  such 
results. 

"Let  France  then  leap  for  joy;  let  England  hold  high 
festival;  let  Normandy  be  glad;  let  all  Gaul  sing  psalms, 
because  it  receives,  by  the  good  providence  of  God,  that 
Governor  who  lightens  everybody's  burdens  and  succors 
his  needs.  Such  things,  certainly,  the  dewy  emotion  of 
your  piety  merits,  that  under  the  shade  of  your  rule  the 
thirsty  may  drain  the  waters  of  the  sciences.  Those  who 
even  now,  under  the  security  of  that  rule,  are  crowding 
from  all  quarters  into  the  noble  University  of  Paris  to 


TO    THE    THRICE 

I  LLVSTRIOVS   AND 

Most    E"x:celi.  f.  nt     Prince, 

CHARLES, 

THS    OU^BLY    S  0  :?^^S    OF 

OVR     SOVEKAIGNE    LORD 
The    King. 


SIR: 

Haue  humbly  fouglu  leauc  of 

Ills  niort  Excellent  Maiestie, 

to  prefent  your  Hi^hne/ft  with 

th is  Volume  of  his  M  a  1 1:  s t  i  e  s 

WoR  KE.'?.  I  duril  not  but  make 

the  Suite  •  and  his  Maiestie 
> 

couJJ  not  well  deny  it.    I  wili 

not  lay  ,  that  it  had  bccne  a 

peece  of  Inmlicc^  in  the  King  to  haue  denyed  you 
this  right  :  But  I  dare  fay,  k  had  beene  a  point  of  Sacn. 
ledge  in  a  (^Ininhm.tn  to  haue  llolne  from  you  fuch  a  por  j 

tior. : 


Reproduced  from  "  The  Workes  of  The  Most  High  and  Mightie  Prince, 
James,  By  the  Grace  of  God,  King  of  Great  Britain,  France  and  Ireland, 
Defender  of  the  Faith,  etc."  Published  by  James,  Bishop  of  Winton, 
and  Dean  of  His  Majestie's  Chappell  Royall.     London,  Anno  1616. 


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preach,  methinks,  the  greatness  of  your  glorious  idea  that 
the  sounds  of  the  shouters  are  re-echoed  to  your  Highness 
from  the  uttermost  distances  of  the  earth. 

"Now  everywhere  men  of  letters  are  hastening  to  come 
and  drink  abounding  cups.  You  have  raised  philosophy 
from  the  dust,  which  used  to  mourn  in  the  poverty  of  its 
beggarhood.  Now  mathematics  rises  up  before  the  gaze 
of  your  Serenity,  with  unveiled  face,  which,  in  her  straitened 
circumstances,  she,  from  bashfulness  had  covered  with  her 
cloak.  She,  tender,  modest,  girdled,  and  frisky (?),  had 
preferred  a  bruised  side  to  entering  presently  the  University 
of  Paris  without  a  safe  conduct.  Then,  to  you  she  came 
in  confidence.  Now  she  returns  joj^ul,  since  she  sees 
herself  summoned,  not  as  to  an  alien's  domicile  but  to  her 
own  home.  But  since  the  study  cf  philosophy  is  forced  to 
take  up  the  natures  of  numbers  and  curious  investigations 
into  natural  things,  on  this  account  it  has  pleased  your 
Highness  to  enjoin  and  command  me  although  unworthy 
and  insufficient,  to  collect  in  one  volume  both  the  theo- 
retical and  the  practical  parts  of  that  art  of  Arithmetic,  by 
gathering  the  dicta  both  of  the  ancients  and  of  the  moderns. 

"Surely,  dread  lord,  although  my  slender  learning  cannot 
rightly  fulfill  this  mandate  as  is  fitting  for  so  great  a  science, 
yet,  because  I  can  truly  say  that  by  the  grace  of  my  lord, 
the  Lord  Regent,  I  am  what  I  am,  and  lest  the  grace  of  so 
great  a  lord  should  remain  unrequited  for  the  benefit  I  have 
received  of  a  prebend  from  the  chapel  of  the  royal  palace 
of  Paris,  now  solicitous  to  offer  what  good-will  I  can  to  the 
honor  of  your  Majesty,  especially  since  you  have  promised 
your  aid,  and  insist  on  my  performance  of  the  task,  I  feel 
the  great  part  you  have  in  it.  So  that,  if  it  contains  any- 
thing blameworthy  you  have  to  acknowledge  it  no  less  for 
yourself  than  for  me,  for  you  knew  to  whom  you  assigned 
the  charge.  Again,  if  it  contains  anything  useful,  to  you, 
that  also  is  to  be  ascribed.  For  the  possession  is  yours,  and 
the  work  is  yours.     What  Arithmeticians  have  thought,  I 


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quote  as  much  as  I  can  by  faithfully  compiling  and  by 
submitting  myself  to  the  correction  of  your  Highness. 

"And  if  any  persons  have  wished  to  backbite  me,  first 
in  their  demonstrations  let  them  backbite  Euclid,  Baccius, 
(Leonardo  filius  Bonacci)  Campanus,  and  Jordanus, 
(Nemorarius).  The  conclusions  of  the  irrefragable  de- 
monstrations of  these  doctors  are  fundamentally  solid, 
so  as  not  to  carry  the  impression  of  a  biting  tooth,  though 
it  had  an  adamantine  hardness.  .  .  . 

"  Let  the  critic  then,  embrace  what  is  bitten  at  least  from 
the  impossibility  of  that  effect,  though  he  be  not  used  to 
embrace  it  for  the  effect  of  truth.  And  let  him  study  to 
offer  your  Highness  greater  things,  since  in  treasures  of 
philosophy  he  calls  himself  the  richer.  Of  what  sort  then 
this  work  be,  and  what  its  utility  for  thinking  men,  it  is 
now  time  to  see." 

This  book,  written  in  Latin  in  1424,  at  the  command  of  John  of 
Lancaster,  has  been  entirely  unknown  to  the  historians  of  mathe- 
matics. Not  a  single  copy  except  that  belonging  to  Mr.  George 
A.  Plimpton,  of  New  York,  has  ever  been  brought  to  notice. 

Godefifrey  of  Bologne,  or  the  Siege  and  Conqueste  of 
Jerusalem.  Translated  from  the  French  by  William 
Caxton,  and  printed  by  him  in  1481. 

Caxton's  Prologue  contains  the  following  dedication 
to  King  Edward  IV: 

"Thenne  to  hym,  my  moost  drad  naturel  and  soverayn 
lord,  I  adresse  this  symple  and  rude  booke,  besechjmg  his 
moost  bounteuous  and  haboundant  grace  to  receyve  it  of 
me,  his  indigne  and  humble  subgette,  William  Caxton,  And 
to  pardonne  me  so  presumynge;  besechyng  almyghty  God 
that  this  sayd  book  may  encourage,  moeve,  and  enflamme 
the  hertes  of  somme  noble  men,  that  by  the  same  the 
mescreauntes^   maye   be   resisted   and   putte   to   rebuke, 

'  Caxton  has  been  mentioning  the  encroachments  of  the  Turks  on 
Rhodes  and  elsewhere,  and  urging  Christian  princes  to  unite  and  recover 
Jerusalem. 


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Cristen  fayth  encreaced  and  enhaunced,  and  the  holy 
lande,  with  the  blessyd  cyte  of  Iherusalem,  recoverd,  and 
may  come  agayn  in  to  cristen  mens  hondes." 


The  Workes  of  Geflfray  Chaucer  Newly  Printed  with  Djrvers 
Workes  Whiche  Were  Never  in  Print  Before. 

(The  first  collected  edition  of  Chaucer's  Works,  printed 
by  William  Thynne,  Chief  Clerk  of  the  Kitchen  to  Henry 
VIII,  in  1532.) 

The  Preface,  with  the  following  dedication  to  Henry  VIII, 
was  written  by  Thynne's  friend,  Sir  Brian  Tuke : 

"To  the  kynges  hyghnesse  my  most  gratious  soveraygne 
lorde  Henry  the  eight,  by  the  grace  of  god  kyng  of  Englande 
and  of  France,  defensor  of  the  fayth  and  lorde  of  Irelande, 
etc.  Amonges  all  other  excellencyes,  most  gratious  soverayn 
lord,  wher-with  almightye  god  hath  endowed  mankynde 
above  the  resydue  of  erthly  creatures  as  an  outwarde  decla- 
ration of  reason  or  resonablenesse,  wherin  consysteth  the 
symylitude  of  man  unto  aungels  and  the  difference  betwene 
the  same  and  brute  beestes,  I  verayly  suppose  that  speche 
or  langage  is  nat  to  be  reputed  amonges  the  smallest  or 
inferiours."  Then  follows  a  discussion  of  the  virtues  of 
various  languages,  and  of  the  efforts  to  beautify  their  tongue, 
made  by  Englishmen — especially  the  "noble  and  famous 
clerke  Geflray  Chaucer."  The  copies  of  Chaucer's  works 
are,  however,  in  a  very  corrupt  state.  The  writer  goes  on : 
"I  thought  it  in  maner  appertenant  unto  my  dewtie,  and 
that  of  very  honesty  and  love  to  my  countrey  I  ought  no 
less  to  do,  than  to  put  my  helpyng  hande  to  the  restauracion 
and  bringynge  agayne  to  lyght  of  the  said  workes,  after 
the  trewe  copies  and  exemplaries  aforesaid.  And  devisyng 
with  my  selfe,  who  of  all  other  were  most  worthy  to  whom 
a  thyng  so  excellent  and  notable  shulde  be  dedicate,  whiche 


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to  my  conceite  semeth  for  the  admiracion,  noveltie,  and 
strangnesse  that  it  myght  be  reputed  to  be  of  in  the  tyme 
of  the  authour  in  comparison,  as  a  pure  and  fyne  tryed 
precious  or  polyced  jewell  out  of  a  rude  or  indigest  masse  or 
mater,  none  coulde  to  my  thynking  occurre,  that  syns,  or 
in  the  tyme  of  Chaucer,  was  or  is  suflycient,  but  onely  your 
maiestie  royall,  whiche  by  discrecyon  and  jugement,  as 
moost  absolute  in  wysdome  and  all  kyndes  of  doctryne, 
coulde,  and  of  his  innate  clemence  and  goodnesse  wolde 
adde  or  gyve  any  authorite  herunto.  .  .  . 

"Most  gracious,  victorious,  and  of  God  most  electa  and 
worthy  prince,  my  most  dradde  soveraygne  lorde,  in  whom 
of  very  merit,  dewtie,  and  successyon  is  renewed  the 
glorious  tytell  of  Defensor  of  the  cristen  faithe  whiche,  by 
your  noble  progenytour,  the  gret  Constantyne,  somtyme 
king  of  this  realme  and  emperour  of  Rome,  was  nexte  God 
and  his  apostels  chefely  maynteyned,  corroborate  and 
defended,  almighty  Jesu  sende  to  your  highnesse  the  con- 
tynuall  and  everlastynge  habundance  of  his  infynite  Grace. 
Amen." 

The  Historie  of  Wyates  Rebellion,  with  the  Order  and 
Maner  of  Resisting  the  Same,  etc.  Made  and  Com- 
piled by  John  Proctor.     1554. 

"To  the  most  Excellent  and  virtuous  Lady,  our  most 
gracious  Sovereign,  Mary,  by  the  grace  of  God,  Queen  of 
England,  France,  Naples,  Hierusalem,  and  Ireland;  De- 
fender of  the  Faith;  Princess  of  Spain,  and  Sicily;  Arch- 
duchess of  Austria;  Duchess  of  Milan,  Burgundy,  and 
Brabant;  Countess  of  Hapsburg,  Flanders,  and  Tyrol; 
your  Majesty's  most  faithful,  loving,  and  obedient  subject, 
John  Proctor  wisheth  all  grace,  long  peace,  quiet  reign, 
from  God  the  father,  the  Son,  and  the  Holy  Ghost. 

"It  hath  been  allowed,  most  gracious  Sovereign,  for  a 
necessary  policy  in  all  Ages,  as  stories  do  witness,  that 
the  flagitious  enterprises  of  the  wicked,  which  have  at  any 


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time  attempted  with  traitorous  force  to  subvert  or  alter 
the  PubHc  State  of  their  countries,  as  also  the  wise  and 
virtuous  policies  of  the  good  practised  to  preserve  the 
Common  Weal  and  to  repel  the  enemies  of  the  same,  should 
by  writing  be  committed  to  eternal  memory."  etc.,  etc. 
The  dedication  continues  through  two  more  pages. 

The  First  and  Seconde  Partes  of  the  Herbal.     By  Dr. 
William  Turner.     1568. 

"To  the  most  noble  and  learned  Princesse  in  all  kindes 
of  good  leminge,  Queene  Elizabeth:  The  printer  had 
geven  me  warninge  there  wanted  nothinge  to  the  settinge 
out  of  my  hole  Herbal,  saving  only  a  Preface,  wherein  I 
might  require  some  both  mighty  and  learned  Patron  to 
defend  my  laboures  against  spitefull  and  envious  enemies 
to  all  mennis  doyinges  saving  their  owne,  and  declare  my 
good  minde  to  him  that  I  am  bound  unto  by  dedicating 
and  geving  these  poore  labours  unto  him.  I  did  seeke 
out  everye  where  in  my  mind,  howe  that  I  coulde  come  by 
such  a  Patron  as  had  both  learning  and  sufficient  authoritie, 
joyned  therewith  to  defend  my  poore  labours  against  their 
adversaries,  and  in  the  same  person  suche  friendshippe  and 
good  will  towards  me,  by  reason  whereof  I  were  most  bound 
unto  above  all  other.  After  longe  turninge  this  matter 
over  in  my  mind,  it  came  to  my  memorye  that  in  all  the 
hole  realme  of  England,  that  there  were  none  more  fit  to 
be  Patronesse  of  my  Booke,  and  none  had  deserved  so 
muche,  to  whom  I  shuld  dedicate  and  geve  the  same  as 
your  most  excellent  sublimitie  hath  done :  I  have  dedicated 
it  therefore  unto  your  most  excellent  sublimitie,  and  do  geve 
it  for  the  avoydinge  of  all  suspicion  of  ingratitude  or  un- 
kindnesuntoyouas  a  token  and  a  witnesof  the  acknowledg- 
inge  of  the  great  benefites  that  I  have  receyved  of  your 
princely  liberalitie  of  late  years.  As  for  the  supremitie  of 
your  power,  might  and  autoritie  in  this  realme,  there  are 


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none  that  will  denye  it  saving  onlye  the  bewitched  hipocrites 
and  bound  men  of  the  spiritual  Babylon.  As  for  your 
knowledge  in  the  Latin  tonge  xviii  years  ago  or  more,  I  had 
in  the  Duke  of  Somersette's  house  (beynge  his  Physition 
at  that  tyme)  a  good  tryal  thereof,  when  as  it  pleased  your 
Grace  to  speake  Latin  unto  me :  for  although  I  have  both 
in  England,  lowe  and  highe  Germanye,  and  other  places 
of  my  longe  travell  and  pelgrimage,  never  spake  with  any 
noble  or  gentle  woman,  that  spake  so  wel  and  so  much 
congrue  fyne  and  pure  Latin,  as  your  Grace  did  unto  me  so 
longe  ago :  sence  whiche  tyme  howe  muche  and  wonderfullye 
ye  have  proceeded  in  the  knowledge  of  the  Latin  tonge, 
and  also  profited  in  the  Greke,  Frenche,  and  Italian  tonges 
and  others  also,  and  in  all  partes  of  Philosophic  and  good 
learninge,  not  onlye  your  owne  faythful  subjectes,  beyinge 
far  from  all  suspicion  of  flattery,  bear  witness,  but  also 
strangers,  men  of  great  learninge  in  their  bokes  set  out  in 
the  Latin  tonge,  geve  honourable  testimony e.  .  .  .  Where- 
fore your  Majestic  hath  largelye  deserved  to  have  a  great 
deale  worthier  gift  for  the  greatnes  and  manifoldnes  of 
the  benefites  that  ye  have  bestowed  upon  me  youre  poore 
subjecte.  But  although  even  as  I  thinke  myselfe  it  be  but 
a  small  present  in  comparison  of  your  worthines,  state, 
dignity,  and  degre,  and  benefites  towards  me :  yet  my  good- 
will considered  and  the  profite  that  maye  come  to  all  youre 
subjectes  by  it,  it  is  not  so  small  as  my  adversaries  perad- 
venture  will  esteme  it.  For  some  of  them  will  saye, 
seyinge  that  I  graunte  that  I  have  gathered  this  booke  of 
so  manye  writers,  that  I  offer  unto  you  an  heape  of  other 
mennis  laboures,  and  nothinge  of  myne  owne,  and  that  I 
goo  about  to  make  me  frendes  with  other  mennis  travayles. 
and  that  a  booke  intreatinge  onelye  of  trees,  herbes  and 
wedes,  and  shrubbes,  is  not  a  mete  present  for  a  prince. 
To  whom  I  annswere,  that  if  the  honye  that  the  bees  gather 
out  of  so  many  floures  of  herbes,  shrubbes  and  trees,  that 
are  growing  in  other  mennis  medowes,  feildes  and  closes; 


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maye  iustelye  be  called  the  bees  honye:  and  Plinies  booke 
de  naturali  historia  maye  be  called  his  booke,  although 
he  have  gathered  it  oute  of  so  manye  good  writers  whom  he 
vouchsaveth  to  name  in  the  beginninge  of  his  worke :  so  may 
I  call  it  that  I  have  learned  and  gathered  of  manye  good 
autoures  not  without  great  laboure  and  payne  my  booke 
and  namelye  because  I  have  handled  no  one  autor,  so  as  a 
craftie,  covetous  and  Popishe  printer  handled  me  of  late, 
who  suppressing  my  name,  and  levinge  out  my  Preface, 
set  out  a  booke  (that  I  set  out  of  Welles,  and  had  corrected 
not  without  some  laboure  and  coste)  with  his  preface,  as 
though  the  booke  had  bene  his  owne." 

(Quoted  from  Wheatley's  Dedication  of  Books,  p.  52  f.) 

The  Tragedies  of  Gabriel  Laso  de  la  Vega.     By  Gabriel 
Laso  de  La  Vega.     (Romancer.)     1587. 

"To  Philip  (II)  Prince  of  the  Spains: 

"In  presuming  with  audacious  temerity  to  dedicate  my 
unpohshed  verses  to  Your  Highness,  and  to  submit  them 
to  your  indulgent  patronage,  I  beseech  Your  Highness  to 
overlook  their  defects,  and  to  accept  them,  not  as  something 
deserving  of  criticism,  but  as  something  which  will  take 
advantage  of  your  favor  to  render  it  safe  from  slanderers. 
Then  indeed  shall  I  feel  myself  amply  and  satisfactorily 
rewarded  for  my  humble  effort,  and  shall  be  encouraged 
to  serve  Your  Highness  with  other  greater  efforts.  May 
Our  Lord  grant  Your  Highness  many  long  years  of 
prosperity. 

"Madrid,  February  12th,  1587." 

(From  the  Spanish.) 

The  Faerie  Queene.     By  Edmund  Spenser.     1596. 

"To  the  most  High,  Mightie  and  Magnificent  Empresse 
renowned  for  pietie,  vertue,  and  all  gratious  government, 


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Elizabeth,  by  the  Grace  of  God  Queene  of  England  and 
Fraunce  and  Ireland  and  of  Virginia,  Defendour  of  the 
Faith,  etc.  Her  most  humble  servant,  Edmund  Spenser, 
doth,  in  all  humilitie,  dedicate,  present  and  consecrate 
these  his  labours,  to  live  with  the  etemitie  of  her  fame." 

La  Araucana.     By  Alonso  de  Ercilla.     1597. 

"To  our  Lord,  the  King  (Philip  II): 

"Inasmuch  as  all  my  works  from  the  beginning  have 
been  dedicated  to  Your  Majesty,  this  one  must  also  neces- 
sarily enjoy  the  benefit  of  your  patronage,  I  beseech  Your 
Majesty  to  glance  through  it,  and  with  great  gratitude  I 
dedicate  it  to  you,  confident  that  you  will  not  consider  me 
presumptuous  for  so  doing.  May  Our  Lord  preserve  the 
Catholic  person  of  Your  Majesty. 

"Antwerp,  1597. 

(From  the  Spanish.) 

Nosce  Teipsum.  This  Oracle  Expounded  in  Two  Elegies, 
I.  Of  Humane  Elnowledge.  2.  Of  the  Soule  of  Man,  and 
the  Immortalitie  Thereof.     By  Sir  John  Davies.     1599. 

"  Dedication  to  my  most  gracious  dread  soveraigne: 

"  To  that  cleere  majestic  which  in  the  North 
Doth,  like  another  sunne  in  glory  rise. 
Which  standeth  fixt,  yet  spreads  her  heavenly  worth ; 
Loadstone  to  hearts,  and  loadstarre  to  all  eyes: 

"Like  Heav'n  in  all;  like  th'  Earth  in  this  alone. 

That  though  great  States  by  her  support  doe  stand, 
Yet  she  herselfe  supported  is  of  none, 

But  by  the  finger  of  the  Almightie's  hand : 

"  To  the  divinest  and  the  richest  minde. 

Both  by  Art's  purchase  and  by  Nature's  dowre, 
That  ever  was  from  Heav'n  to  Earth  confin'd, 
To  shew  the  utmost  of  a  Creature's  power: 


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"To  that  great  Spirit,  which  doth  great  kingdomes  moove, 
The  sacred  spring  whence  right  and  honour  streames, 
Distilling  vertue,  shedding  peace  and  love, 
In  every  place,  as  Cynthia  sheds  her  beames: 

"I  offer  up  some  sparkles  of  that  fire, 

Whereby  wee  reason,  live  and  move  and  be; 
These  sparkes  by  nature  evermore  aspire, 

Which  makes  them  to  so  high  an  highnesse  flee. 

"Faire  soule,  since  to  the  fairest  body  knit. 

You  give  such  lively  life,  such  quick'ning  pow'r, 
Such  sweet  celestial  influences  to  it. 

As  keepes  it  still  in  youth's  immortall  flower: 

"  (As  where  the  Sunne  is  present  all  the  yeere. 
And  never  doth  retire  his  golden  ray, 
Needs  must  the  Spring  bee  everlasting  there, 
And  every  season  like  the  month  of  May.) 

"0!  many,  many  yeeres  may  you  remaine 
A  happy  angell  to  this  happie  land : 
Long,  long  may  you  on  Earth  our  empresse  raigne, 
Ere  you  in  Heaven  a  glorious  angell  stand. 

"Stay  long  (sweet  spirit)  ere  thou  to  Heaven  depart, 
Which  mak'st  each  place  a  heaven  wherein  thou  art. 
Her  Majestie's  least  and  unworthiest  subject, 

Davies." 

Davies  celebrated  Elizabeth  still  more  fervently  in  his  Hymnes 
of  Astrsa,  in  acrostic  verse. 

The  Amorose  Songes,  Sonets,  and  Elegies,  of  M.  Alexander 
Craige,  Scoto-Britane.     1606. 

"To  the  most  godly,  vertuous,  beautifull,  and  accom- 
plished Princesse,  meritoriously  dignified  with  all  the  Titles 
Religion,  Vertue,  Honor,  Beautie  can  receive,  challenge, 
aflorde,  or  deserve;  Anna,  by  divine  Providence,  of  Great 
Britane,  France,  and  Ireland,  Queene;  Alexander  Craige 


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wisheth  all  health,  wealth,  and  royall  felicitie."  In  the 
dedication  that  follows,  Craige  refers  in  the  most  deprecat- 
ing terms  to  the  merits  of  his  poems,  saved  from  destruc- 
tion only  by  the  grace  of  their  ' ' royall  Godmother. "  "I  am 
bold  (divine  Ladie)  to  borrow  thy  blessed  name,  to  beau- 
tifie  my  blotted  Booke.  .  .  .  Happie  beyonde  the  measure 
of  my  merit  shall  I  bee,  if  I  can  purchase  this  portion  of 
your  Princely  approbation,  as  to  accept  and  entertaine  these 
triviall  toys  (where  your  Grace  shall  smell  Flowers  to 
refresh,  Hearbs  to  cure,  and  Weedes  to  be  avoyded  in  the 
lowest  degree  of  least  favour).  But,  howsoever,  wishing 
your  Highness  as  many  happie  yeares  as  there  are  words 
in  my  Verses  [some  20,000]  and  Verses  in  my  worthies 
Volume:  I  am  Your  Majestie's  most  obsequious  Orator, 
Alexander  Craige." 

Craige,  one  of  the  many  Scotchmen  who  followed  their  royal 
master  south  in  the  hope  of  preferment,  received  in  1605  a  pension, 
on  which  he  afterwards  retired  to  Scotland.  To  quote  from  David 
Laing's  introduction  to  the  Hunterian  Club  edition  of  Craige's 
works:  "In  this  volume  of  1606,  besides  the  dedication  to  the 
Queen,  he  has  an  'Epistle  generall  to  Idea,  Cynthia,  Lithocardia, 
Kala,  Erantina,  Lais,  Pandora,  Penelope,'  to  all  of  whom  he  also 
adds  separate  epistles  and  several  sonnets,  and  his  reputation  would 
not  have  suffered  had  several  of  them  been  suppressed.  He 
exhibits  a  want  of  all  delicacy  or  propriety  in  having  preserved 
and  swelled  out  the  volume,  inscribed  and  presented  to  her  Majesty, 
with  verses  such  as  those  which  he  addressed  to  the  'inconstant' 
and  'lascivious'  Lais.  But  he  evidently  had  an  overweening 
conceit  of  his  own  verses." 

Jerusalem  Conquered.     By  Lope  Felix  de  Vega  Carpio. 
Barcelona,  1609. 

"To  our  Lord  the  King. 

"If  among  the  titles  of  Your  Majesty  there  shines  more 
resplendently  that  of  King  of  Jerusalem,  Emperor  of  the 
Eastern  and  Antarctic  Indies,  it  is  justly  due  to  dedicate 
to  you  the  history  of  their  conquest  by  the  most  fortunate 
kings,  Richard  and  Alfonso  VIII,  which  was  the  first  action 


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by  which  Your  Majesty  took  this  title:  since  you  are  de- 
scended by  the  Hne  of  England  from  the  renowned  Queen 
Leonore,  daughter  of  Richard,  and  mother  of  Alfonso,  grand- 
father of  Saint  Fernando,  who  won  Seville.  Will  Your 
Majesty  receive  this  humble  tribute  (so  unequal  to  your 
merits)  from  one  who  would  like  to  offer  more  worlds  than 
you  have  kingdoms.     May  God  preserve  Your  Majesty. 

"Lope  FeUx  de  Vega  Carpio." 
(From  the  Spanish.) 

Masque  of  Queenes,  Celebrated  from  the  House  of  Fame : 
by  the  Queen  of  Great  Britain,  with  Her  Ladies,  at 
Whitehall.     By  Ben  Jonson.     1609. 

"To  the  glory  of  our  own  and  grief  of  other  nations,  my 
Lord  Henry,  prince  of  Great  Britain,"  etc.  A  long  dedi- 
cation addressed  to  the  Prince  follows,  in  which  Jonson 
says  among  other  things:  "Both  your  virtue  and  your  form 
did  deserve  your  fortune.  The  one  claimed  that  you  should 
be  bom  a  prince,  the  other  makes  that  you  do  become  it. 
.  .  .  Your  favour  to  letters,  and  these  gentler  studies,  that 
go  under  the  title  of  Humanity,  is  not  the  least  honour  of 
your  wreath.  .  .  .  Poetry,  my  Lord,  is  not  bom  with 
every  man,  nor  every  day:  and  in  her  general  right,  it  is 
now  my  minute  to  thank  your  Highness,  who  not  only  do 
honour  her  with  your  care,  but  are  curious  to  examine  her 
with  your  eye,  and  inquire  into  her  beauties  and  strengths. 
...  If  my  fate  (most  excellent  Prince,  and  only  delicacy 
of  mankind)  shall  reserve  me  to  the  age  of  your  actions, 
whether  in  the  camp  or  the  council-chamber,  that  I  may 
write,  at  nights,  the  deeds  of  your  days;  I  will  then  labour 
to  bring  forth  some  works  as  worthy  of  your  fame,  as  my 
ambition  therein  is  of  your  pardon. 

"By  the  most  true  admirer  of  your  Highness's  virtues, 
"And  most  hearty  celebrator  of  them, 

"Ben  Jonson." 

Fate  did  not   allow  Jonson  to   celebrate  the  deeds  of  Prince 
Henry,  who  died  in  1613. 


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The  Bible.     1611. 

"To  James  I.  To  the  Most  High  and  Mighty  Prince 
James.  By  the  Grace  of  God,  King  of  Great  Britain, 
France  and  Ireland,  Defender  of  the  Faith,  &c.  The 
Translators  of  the  Bible  wish  Grace,  Mercy,  and  Peace, 
through  Jesus  Christ  our  Lord. 

"Great  and  manifold  were  the  blessings,  most  dread 
Sovereign,  which  Almighty  God,  the  Father  of  all  mercies, 
bestowed  upon  us  the  people  of  England,  when  first  he  sent 
Your  Majesty's  Royal  Person  to  rule  and  reign  over  us." 

Great  praise  is  given  to  the  King,  and  the  translators 
do  not  overlook  themselves. 

"So  that  if,  on  the  one  side,  we  shall  be  traduced  by 
Popish  Persons  at  home  or  abroad  ...  or  if,  on  the  other 
side,  we  shall  be  maligned  by  self-conceited  Brethren  w^ho 
run  their  own  way  and  give  liking  unto  nothing  but  what 
is  framed  by  themselves,  and  hammered  on  their  anvil, 
we  may  rest  secure,  supported  within  by  the  truth  and 
innocency  of  a  good  conscience,  having  walked  the  ways 
of  simplicity  and  integrity  as  before  the  Lord,  and  sustained 
without  by  the  powerful  protection  of  Your  Majesty's 
grace  and  favour  which  will  ever  give  countenance  to  honest 
and  Christian  endeavours  against  bitter  censures  and 
uncharitable  imputations. 

"The  Lord  of  heaven  and  earth  bless  Your  Majesty  with 
many  and  happy  days,  that,  as  his  heavenly  hand  hath 
enriched  Your  Highness  with  many  singular  and  extra- 
ordinary graces,  so  You  may  be  the  wonder  of  the  world 
in  this  latter  age  for  happiness  and  true  felicity,  to  the 
honour  of  that  great  God,  and  the  good  of  his  Church, 
through  Jesus  Christ  our  Lord  and  only  Saviour." 

Poly-Olbion.     By  Michael  Drayton.     1612. 

' '  To  the  prince  of  Wales,  hopefull  heyre  of  the  kingdoms 
of  this  Great  Britaine :  This  first  part  of  my  intended  Poeme 


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I  consecrate  to  your  Highness.  .  .  .  My  Soule,  which 
hath  seene  the  extreamitie  of  Time  and  Fortune,  cannot 
yet  despaire.  The  influence  of  so  glorious  and  fortunate 
a  Starre,  may  also  reflect  upon  me:  which  hath  power  to 
give  me  new  life,  or  leave  me  to  die  more  willingly  and 
contented,"  etc. 

"The  most  humbly  devoted, 

"  Michael  Drayton." 

In  the  dedication  of  the  second  part  (1622)  to  Prince  Charles, 
Drayton  refers  to  the  princely  bounty  of  the  late  Prince  Henry. 
In  the  first  part,  there  is  a  portrait  of  the  Prince,  with  these  lines 
opposite: 

"Britaine,  behold  here  portray'd  to  thy  sight, 
Henry,  thy  best  hope  and  the  world's  delight; 
Ordain'd  to  make  thy  eight  great  Henries,  nine: 
Who,  by  that  vertue  in  the  Trebble  Trine, 
To  his  owne  goodnesse  (in  his  Being)  brings 
These  several  Glories  of  th'  eight  English  Kings; 
Deep  Knowledge,  Greatness,  long  Life,  Policy, 
Courage,  Zeale,  Fortune,  awfull  Maistie. 
He  like  great  Neptune  on  three  Seas  shall  rove. 
And  rule  three  Realmes,  with  triple  power,  like  Jove; 
Thus  in  soft  Peace,  thus  in  tempestuous  Warres, 
Till  from  his  foote,  his  Fame  shall  strike  the  Starres." 

An  Exquisite  Commentarie  upon  the  Revelation  of  St. 
John.     By  Patrik  Forbes  of  Corse.     London,  1613. 

"To  the  Most  Mighty  Monarch  my  Most  Gratious 
Soveraigne  Lord,  James  King  of  Great  Britaine,  France, 
and  Ireland,  Defender  of  The  Faith,  etc. 

"Grace  and  Peace,  with  all  Increase  and  Continuance 
of  Happy  and  Royall  State  from  God  the  Father  in  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ,  the  King  of  Kings  and  Lord  of  Lords. 
For  a  token,  though  poore  in  my  part;  yet  that  gratefuUie 
I  remember  your  Highnesse  Princely  mind,  in  keeping  mee 
an  eare  against  sinistrous  delation,  and  giving  so  gentle 
warning  of  your  good  pleasure  therein,  this  part  of  my 


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misreported  paines,  I  humbly  present  unto  your  Maiestie," 
etc. 

"Patrik  Forbes  of  Corse." 

Paradisi  in  Sole :  Paradisus  Terrestris :  or  a  Garden  of  All 
Sorts  of  Pleasant  Flowers,  etc.  By  John  Parkinson.   1629. 

"To  the  Queens  most  excellent  Maiestie  [Henrietta 
Maria]. 

"Madame: 

"Knowing  your  maiestie  so  much  delighted  with  all  the 
faire  flowers  of  a  garden,  and  furnished  with  them  as 
farre  beyond  others,  as  you  are  eminent  before  them,  this 
my  work  of  a  Garden,  long  before  this,  intended  to  be 
published,  but  now  only  finished,  seemed  as  it  were  destined 
to  be  first  offered  into  your  Highnesse  hands  as  of  ryght 
challenging  the  propriety  of  Patronage  from  all  others. 
Accept  I  beseech  your  Majestie  this  speaking  Garden  that 
may  inform  you  in  all  the  particulars  of  your  store  as  well 
as  wants,  when  you  cannot  see  any  of  them  fresh  upon  the 
ground:  and  I  shall  further  encourage  him  to  accomplish 
the  remainder,  who  in  praying  that  your  Highnesse  may 
enjoy  the  heavenly  Paradise,  after  the  many  years  fruition 
of  this  earthly,  submitteth  to  be 

"Your  Majesties  in  all  humble  devotion, 

"John  Parkinson." 

On  the  publication  of  this  work,  Parkinson  obtained  from  Charles 
I  the  title  of  "  Botanicus  Regius  Primarius." 

Parkinson's  book  is  a  description  of  all  the  plants  and  shrubs 
and  bulbs  of  his  time,  giving  in  each  case  a  Classification,  under 
varieties,  and  ending  with  The  Place — The  Time — The  Names — 
The  Vertues.  These  last  are  very  amusing  at  times.  For  instance 
one,  virtues  of  the  Lily  of  the  Valley:  "The  flowers  of  the  white 
kind  are  often  used  with  those  things  that  help  to  strengthen  the 
memory  and  to  procure  ease  to  Apoplecticte  persons.  Camerarius 
setteth  down  the  manner  of  making  an  oyle  of  the  flowers  hereof 
which  he  saithe  is  very  effectuall  to  ease  the  paines  of  the  Goute, 
and  such  like  diseases,  to  be  used  outwardly,  which  is  thus;  Having 
filled  a  glasse  with  the  flowers  and  being  well  stopped,  set  it  for  a 


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month  space  in  an  Ants  hill,  and  after  being  drayned  cleare,  set  it 
by  to  use." 

THE  LOVE  APPLE  OR  TOMATO: 

"Although  the  beautie  of  this  plant  consisteth  not  in  the  flower, 
but  fruit,  yet  give  me  leave  to  insert  it  here,  lest  otherwise  it  have 
no  place;  whereof  there  are  two  especial  sorts,  which  wee  comprehend 
in  one  Chapter,  and  distinguish  them  by  mains  and  minus,  greater 
and  smaller;  yet  of  the  greater  kinde,  we  have  noursed  up  in  our 
Gardens  two  sorts,  that  differ  only  in  the  color  of  the  fruite  and  in 
nothing  else. 

"Pomum  Amdris  maius  fructa  rubro. 

"Great  apple  of  Love,  the  ordinary  red  sort.  This  greater  kind 
of  Love  apples,  which  hath  beene  most  frequently  cherished  with 
us,  hath  divers  long  and  trayling  branches,  leaning  or  spreading 
upon  the  ground,  not  able  to  sustaine  themselves,  where  on  doe 
grow  many  long  winged  leaves,  that  is,  many  leaves  set  on  both 
sides,  and  all  along  a  middle  ribbe,  some  being  greater,  and  others 
lesse,  iagged  also  and  dented  about  the  edges,  of  a  grayish  over- 
worn greene  color,  some  what  rough  or  hairy  in  handling;  from 
among  the  leaves  and  the  branches  come  forth  long  stalks,  with 
divers  flowers  set  there  on,  upon  several  short  foot  stalks,  consisting 
of  sixe  and  sometimes  of  eight  small  long  yellow  leaves,  with  a  middle 
pricke  or  bone,  which  after  the  flowers  are  fallen  riseth  to  be  the 
fruite,  which  are  of  the  bignesse  of  a  small  or  mean  Pippen  unevenly 
bunched  out  in  divers  places  and  scarce  any  full  round  without 
bunches,  of  a  faire  pale  reddish  colour  or  some  what  deeper,  like 
unto  an  Orange  full  of  a  slimie  juice  and  watery  pulpe  where  in  the 
seed  lyeth,  which  is  white,  flat  and  some  what  rough:  the  roote 
shooteth  with  many  small  strings  and  bigger  branches  under 
ground,  but  perisheth  at  the  first  feeling  of  our  winter  weather. 
The  fruite  here  of  by  often  sowing  it  in  our  Land,  is  become  much 
smaller  then  I  have  here  described  it:  but  was  at  the  first,  and  so 
for  two  or  three  years  after,  as  bigge  as  I  have  related  it. 

"Pomum  amdris  maius  fructa  luteo.  Of  the  same  kinde  is 
this  other  sort  of  Amdrous  apples  differing  in  nothing  but  the 
colour  of  the  fruit,  which  is  of  a  pale  yellow  colour,  having  bunches 
or  lobes  in  the  same  manner,  and  seede  also  like  the  former." 

"Pomum  Amdris  minus,  fine  Mala  Etheopica  pama.  Small 
Love  Apples: 

"The  small  Apples  of  Love  in  the  very  like  manner  have  long 
weake  trayling  branches,  beset  with  such  like  leaves  as  the  greater 
kind  hath,  but  smaller  in  every  part:  the  flowers  also  stand  many 


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together  on  a  long  stalk  and  yellow  as  the  former  but  rtiuch  smaller: 
the  fruite  are  small,  round  yellowish  red  berries,  not  much  bigger 
then  great  grapes,  where  in  are  contained  white  flat  seede,  like  the 
other,  but  smaller:  the  root  perisheth  in  like  manner  every  yeare, 
and  therefore  must  bee  new  sowen  every  spring,  if  you  will  have 
the  pleasure  of  their  sight  in  the  garden;  yet  some  yeares  I  have 
known  them  rise  of  their  owne  sowing  in  my  garden. 

"They  grow  naturally  in  the  hot  Countries  of  Barbary  and 
Ethiopia,  yet  some  report  them  to  be  first  brought  from  Peru,  a 
province  of  the  West  Indies.  Wee  only  have  them  for  curiosity 
in  our  gardens  and  for  the  amorous  aspect  or  beauty  of  the  fruit. 

"They  flower  in  July  and  August,  and  their  fruite  is  ripe  in  the 
middle  or  end  of  September  for  the  most  part. 

"The  first  is  named  diversely  by  divers  Authors;  for  Label, 
Camerarius,  and  others,  call  them  Poma  Amdris  Dodonaeus  Aura 
Mala.  Gesnarus  first  and  Baubrinus  after  him,  make  it  to  be  a 
kind  of  Salanum  Pomiferum.  Anquillus  Auquillara  taketh  it  to  be 
Lycoperficum  of  Galen.  Others  think  it  to  bee  Glaucium  of 
Dioscordides.  The  last  is  called  Mala  .i^Ithiopica  pama,  and  by 
that  title  was  first  sent  unto  us,  as  if  the  former  were  of  the  same 
kind  and  country.  We  call  them  in  English,  Apples  of  Love, 
Love  Apples,  Golden  Apples  or  Amdrous  Apples,  and  all  as  much 
to  one  purpose  as  another,  more  then  for  their  beautiful  aspect. 

"In  the  hot  Countries  where  they  naturally  growe,  they  are 
much  eaten  of  the  people,  to  coole  and  quench  the  heate  and  thirst 
of  their  hot  stomachs.  The  apples  also  boyled,  or  infused  in  oyle 
in  the  sunne  is  thought  to  be  good  to  cure  the  itch,  assuredly  it 
will  allay  the  heate  thereof." 

History  of  Cremona.     By  Antonio  Campo.     1645. 

"To  His  Sacred  Catholic  and  Royal  Majesty,  King 
Philip  IV,  our  Master: 

"The  present  history,  Sacred  Catholic  Majesty,  is 
adorned  with  the  glorious  deeds  of  two  incomparable  heroes, 
ancestors  of  Your  Majesty,  and  it  is  coming  to  light  in  a 
new  edition,  not  being  satisfied  with  the  fame  won  by  the 
first,  but  aspiring  ambitiously  to  greater  fame,  so  as  to  be 
safe  from  the  security  of  oblivion  and  to  enjoy  an  eternal 
splendor.  It,  therefore,  has  recourse  to  Your  Majesty, 
sun  of  the  Catholic  Monarchy,   from  whose  radiance  it 


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hopes  to  obtain  the  perpetuity  which  it  desires.  May 
Your  Majesty  kindly  deign  to  look  upon  it  and  accept  it 
in  your  royal  soul  as  a  small  act  of  homage  of  him  who, 
as  a  sign  of  very  faithful  servitude  dares  to  present  it,  and 
with  most  devoted  heart  wishes  that  you  may  long  continue 
to  be  our  happy  monarch.     Milan,  the  first  of  January, 

1645- 

"Of  Your  Sacred  Christian  Royal  Majesty 

"The  most  faithful  subject  and  most  humble  servant, 

"Gio.  Battista  Bidelli." 

Hesperides:  or,  The  Works  both  Humane  and  Divine  of 
Robert  Herrick,  Esq.     1648. 

"To  the  Most  Illustrious,  and  Most  Hopeful  Prince, 
Charles,  Prince  of  Wales. 

"Well  may  my  Book  come  forth  like  Publique  Day, 
When  such  a  Light  as  You  are  leads  the  way : 
Who  are  my  Works  Creator,  and  alone 
The  Flame  of  it,  and  the  Expansion. 
And  look  how  all  those  heavenly  Lamps  acquire 
Light  from  the  Sun,  that  inexhausted  Fire : 
So  all  my  Morne,  and  Evening  Stars,  from  You 
Have  their  Existence,  and  their  Influence  too. 
Full  is  my  Book  of  Glories:  but  all  These 
By  You  become  Immortall  Substances." 

No.  213  of  the  Hesperides  is  a  charming  pastoral  upon  the  birth 
of  Prince  Charles:  Mirtillo  announces  to  the  other  shepherds  the 
birth  of  a  "sweet-faced  child,  more  tender  than  the  childhood  of 
the  mom";  Amintas  asks 

"But  is  't  a  trespass  if  we  three 
Should  wend  along  his  babyship  to  see?  " 
They  decide  to  bring  him  shepherds'  gifts — a  garland  of  flowers, 
oaten  pipes,  and  the  like: 

"And  I  a  sheep-hook  will  bestow. 
To  have  his  little  kingship  know, 
As  he  is  prince,  he  's  shepherd  too." 


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Don  Japhet  of  Armenia.     By  Paul  Scarron.     1653. 

"To  the  King: 

"I  will  try  to  convince  your  Majesty  that  you  would  do 
no  great  wrong,  if  you  did  me  a  little  good.  If  you  did  me 
a  little  good,  I  should  be  better  humored  than  I  am.  If  I 
were  better-humored,  I  should  write  merrier  comedies.  If 
I  wrote  merrier  comedies,  your  Majesty  would  have  some- 
thing to  laugh  at.  If  your  Majesty  had  something  to  laugh 
at,  your  money  would  not  be  wasted.  All  this  follows  so 
logically,  that  methinks  I  should  be  convinced  by  it  if  I 
were  as  great  a  king  as  I  am  a  poor  sick  man." 

(From  the  French.) 

Episcopacy  (as  Established  by  Law  in  England)  not  Preju- 
dicial to  Regal  Power.  A  Treatise  Written  in  the  Time 
of  the  Long  Parliament  by  the  Special  Command  of  the 
Late  King,  and  now  Published  by  the  Right  Reverend 
Father  in  God,  Robert  Sanderson,  Lord  Bishop  of  Lincoln. 
London,  1661. 

"To  the  most  high  and  mighty  King  Charles  the  II,  by 
the  Grace  of  God  King  of  Great  Britain,  France  and  Ireland, 
Defender  of  the  Faith,"  etc. 

Parallel  of  the  Ancient  Architecture  with  the  Modem  .  .  . 
Written  in  French  by  Roland  Freart  .  .  .  Made  English 
for  the  Benefit  of  Builders.    By  John  Evelyn.     1664. 

"To  the  most  serene  majesty  of  Charles  II: 
"Since  the  great  Augustus  vouchsafed  to  Patronize  a  work 
of  this  Nature,  which  was  dedicated  to  him  by  Vitruvius; 
I  had  no  reason  to  apprehend,  Your  Majesty  would  reprove 
these  Addresses  of  mine,  if,  in  presenting  you  with  those 
Antiquities  on  which  that  excellent  Master  form'd  his 
Studies  I  intituled  Your  Majesty  to  a  Work,  so  little 
inferiour  to  it,  and  so  worthy  to  go  in  paragon  with  it. 
And,  indeed,  to  whom  could  I  more  aptly  Inscribe  a  Dis- 


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course  of  Building,  than  to  so  Royal  a  Builder,  whose 
August  Attempts  have  already  given  so  great  a  Splendor 
to  our  Imperial  City,  and  so  Illustrious  an  Example  to  the 
Nation!  It  is  from  this  Contemplation,  Sir,  that  after  I 
had  (by  the  Commands  of  the  Royal  Society)  endeavour 'd 
the  Improvement  of  Timber,  and  the  Planting  of  Trees, 
I  have  advanc'd  to  that  of  Building,  as  its  proper  and 
natural  Consequent:  Not  with  a  Presumption  to  Incite  or 
Instruct  your  Majesty,  which  were  a  Vanity  unpardonable ; 
but  by  it  to  take  occasion  of  celebrating  Your  Majesty's 
great  Example,  who  use  Your  Empire  and  Authority  so 
worthily,  as  Fortune  seems  to  have  consulted  her  Reason 
when  she  poured  her  Favours  upon  You;  .  .  .  whilst 
Stones  can  preserve  Inscriptions,  your  Name  will  be  famous 
to  Posterity;  and  when  those  materials  fail,  the  Benefits 
that  are  engraven  in  our  Hearts  will  outlast  those  of  marble." 

More  encomiums  on  his  Majesty's  building  achievements 
follow,  rising  to  the  height  of  comparing  Charles  to  the 
Divine  Architect.  It  is  difficult,  declares  Evelyn,  not  to 
slide  into  panegyric  in  speaking  of  Charles,  and  he  certainly 
permits  himself  to  slide  very  far.  In  conclusion,  his 
Majesty's  "  ever  loyal,  most  obedient,  and  faithful  servant," 
lays  the  book  at  his  feet,  and  craves  the  protection  of  "that 
sacred  name." 

"Says  Court, 

20  Aug.,  1664." 

Embassy  from  the  East-India  Company  of  the  United 
Provinces,  to  the  Emperor  of  Japan.  By  John  Ogilby, 
Esq.     London,  1670. 

"To  the  Supream,  most  high  and  Mighty  Prince  Charles 
II.  By  the  Grace  of  God,  of  Great  Britain,  France,  and 
Ireland  King,  Defender  of  the  Faith,  &c.  These  Strange 
and  Novel  Relations  concerning  Both  the  Ancient  and 
Present  Estate  of  the  So  Populous  and  Wealthy  Empire 
of  Japan,  being   a  Book  of  Wonders,  Dedicated  with  all 


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Humility,  Lies  Prostrate  at  the  Sacred  Feet  of  Your  Most 
Serene  Majesty:  by  the  Humblest  of  Your  Servants,  and 
Most  Loyal  Subject,  John  Ogilby." 

The  Triumphs  of  the  Eagle  and  the  Eclipse  of  the  Crescent 

(Sun). 

(Translated  from  Spanish  into  Polish  by  Julien  Adolf 
Swiecicki.      Edited  by   Mathias   Bersohn  on   the   two 
hundredth  anniversary  of  the  rescue  of  Vienna  by  the 
Polish  king,   John    III.     Warsaw,    1885.     A  panegyric 
full  of  esteem  to  the  unvanquished  Polish  king  by  Don 
Joseph  de  la  Vega,  commemorating  the  victory  gained  by 
his  courage  over  the  Ottoman  Power,  thus  delivering 
Vienna  from  the  terrible  siege.     Amsterdam,  1683.) 
"To  the  unvanquished  John  the  Third,  king  of  Poland, 
grand    duke    of    Lithuania,    Russia,    Prussia,    Masowia, 
Samogitia,    Livonia,   Kiev,    Podolia,    Podlasie,    Smolensk, 
Volhynia,  etc.,  etc. 
"Sire! 

"Your  Majesty  gave  in  rescuing  Vienna  such  extraor- 
dinary reason  for  admiration,  such  unheard  of  occasion  for 
ecstasy,  that,  should  Fame  try  her  best  to  display  her 
triumphs,  she  will  be  obliged  to  acknowledge  her  inferiority 
because  the  only  way  to  render  homage  to  a  power  which 
makes  one  blind  by  its  brilliant  rays  is  by  eclipsing  oneself. 
What  could  offer  admiration  to  a  noble  Eagle  if  not  the 
Triumphs  of  the  Eagle,  and  what  could  offer  gratitude  to 
the  luminous  Sun  if  not  the  Eclipse  of  the  Crescent? 

"Accept,  your  Majesty,  these  rhetorical  flowers,  which 
my  mind  dedicates  to  your  Greatness  with  affection  and 
humility.  Even  the  Romans  had  a  custom  to  bestow 
flowers  upon  their  heroes.  The  theatre  of  Nemea  was 
filled  with  flowers,  and  the  Macedonians  threw  wreaths  at 
the  feet  of  Nearch,  rewarding  his  deeds  with  fragrant 
flowers.  May  the  great  God  of  the  army  and  the  only 
master  of  victories  give  to  your  Majesty's  troops  such 


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glorious  victories  that  the  enraptured  age  will  immortalize 
them  as  great,  and  the  proud  posterity  consider  them  as 
extraordinary,  I  prostrate  myself  at  your  Majesty's  feet. 

"  Don  Joseph  de  la  Vega. 
"Amsterdam,  November  15,  1683." 

The  Fall  of  Babylon :  Seasonable  Reflections  on  the  Novel- 
ties of  Rome.     By  B.  W.  D.  D.     1690. 

"To  the  King  of  England  and  all  crowned  heads  and 
soveraign  princes  whatever: 

"It  is  the  advice  of  the  Royal  Prophet  to  you  his  Royal 
Brethren,  '  Be  wise  now  therefore,  O  ye  Kings,  be  instructed, 
ye  Judges  of  the  Earth.  Serve  the  Lord  with  fear,  and 
rejoice  with  trembling.'  .  .  .  And  the  reason  of  it  was, 
because  He  that  sitteth  in  the  Heavens  .  .  .  had  set  his 
King  upon  his  Holy  Hill  of  Zion,  and  as  a  result  of  his 
Eternal  Decree  had  bid  him  ask  of  him,  and  he  would  give 
him  the  Heathen  for  his  Inheritance  and  the  uttermost 
parts  of  the  earth  for  his  possession,  and  as  the  effect  of  that 
his  Royalty,  he  should  break  them  with  a  rod  of  iron,  and 
dash  them  in  pieces  like  a  Potter's  Vessel. 

"Now  the  time  seems  to  draw  on  that  this  is  to  be  fully 
accomplished,  and  is  it  not  the  duty  of  the  Watchman  to 
give  the  warning  before  it  is  too  late?  For  what  will  it 
advantage  to  be  told  of  Danger,  when  it  will  not  be  in  your 
power  to  prevent  it?  To  be  minded  of  the  Approach  of 
Christ's  kingdom,  when  his  iron  rod  shall  be  shaking  over 
you  and  your  power,  your  Interests,  your  Alliances,  your 
Glory,  your  Wealth,  and  Kingdoms  all  dashing  in  pieces 
against  one  another?  For  if  you  chance  to  be  of  those, 
who  give  your  power  to  the  Beast,  this  will  unavoidably 
be  your  Fate,  both  yours  and  Babylon's  in  one  Hour,  to 
come  to  Confusion. 

"But  there  are  among  you  (Great  Soveraigns)  who  seem 
not  to  be  so  much  concerned  in  this;  those  I  mean,  who 


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having  left  the  corrupt  Communion  of  the  Church  of  Rome, 
yet  have  not  fully  pursued  or  acted  agreeable  to  that  Refor- 
mation, which  is  to  bring  on,  or  succeed,  the  Fall  of  Babylon. 
To  such  is  it,  I  have  to  add,  that  they  would  please  to 
consider,  it  will  not  suffice,  that  you  are  content  to  be 
called  Protestants,  and  enjoy  the  Interest  of  that  Name, 
unless  you  are  what  that  name  speaks ;  and  it  is  your  highest 
Concern  so  to  be;  the  time  growing  on,  when  Success  and 
Victory  shall  go  along  with  Truth  and  Piety."     Etc.,  etc. 

A  Complete  Collection  of  Voyages  and  Travels :  Consisting 
of  above  Four  Hundred  of  the  Most  Authentick  Writers. 
...  By  John  Harris,  A.M.,  Fellow  of  the  Royal  Society. 
London,  1705. 

"To  the  Queen's  most  excellent  Majesty: 

"Madam, 

"Your  gracious  Acceptance  of  my  late  Book,  which  I 
had  the  honour  to  Dedicate  to  His  Royal  Highness,  makes 
me  presume  to  lay  this  at  Your  Majesty's  Feet. 

"The  Discoveries  that  have  been  successively  made  of 
the  Religions,  Manners,  Customs,  Politicks,  and  Natural 
Products  of  all  parts  of  the  World,  will  here  give  Your 
Majesty  an  agreeable  and  useful  Entertainment:  And,  I  'm 
sure,  it  will  add  to  your  satisfaction  to  see,  that  they  have 
been  chiefly  made  by  those  of  Your  Own  Nation.  It  hath 
been  thought  by  some  a  laudable  Reason  for  sending  our 
Gentlemen  Abroad,  that  they  may  the  better  learn  to 
value  their  native  country.  And  this  I  daresay,  That 
when  either  a  man  hath  actually  travell'd  the  whole  World 
over  himself,  or  carefully  consider'd  the  Accounts  which 
those  give  us  that  have  done  so,  he  will  be  abundantly 
convinc'd,  that  Our  Own  Religion,  Government  and 
Constitution  is,  in  the  main,  much  preferable  to  any  he 
shall  meet  with  abroad;  and  especially  under  the  happy 
influence  of  Your  Majesty's  Reign,  whom  Providence 
seems  to  have  design'd  to  make  us  Great  and  Happy,  even 


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whether  we  will  or  no."  The  Queen's  virtues — her  good- 
ness, wisdom,  lenity,  and  so  on, — are  then  enumerated. 
"And  as  these  are  Vertues,  Madam,  which  can  never  lose 
their  just  reward ;  so  I  doubt  not  but  God  will  give  it  You, 
in  a  great  Measure,  here ;  and  make  You  the  glorious  instru- 
ment of  settling  the  Peace  and  Liberty  of  Europe  on  a 
safe  and  lasting  Foundation. 

"The  mighty  success  Your  just  arms  have  obtain'd 
already,  against  the  Common  Enemy,  doth  fairly  foretell 
this;  and  as  I  doubt  not  but  this  is  the  Universal  Prayer 
of  all  true  English  men;  so  it  is  desired  by  none,  with 
greater  Zeal  and  Earnestness,  than  by, 

"Madam, 

"Your  Majesty's  most  dutiftd  and  obedient  subject 
and  servant, 

"John  Harris." 

Liberty,  a  Poem.     By  James  Thomson.     1738. 

"To  his  royal  highness,  Frederick,  Prince  of  Wales. 

"Sir, 

"When  I  reflect  upon  that  ready  Condescension,  that 
preventing  Generosity,  with  which  Your  Royal  Highness 
received  the  following  Poem  under  your  Protection;  I  can 
alone  ascribe  it  to  the  Recommendation,  and  Influence  of 
the  Subject.  In  you  the  Cause  and  Concerns  of  Liberty 
have  so  zealous  a  Patron,  as  entitles  whatever  may  have 
the  least  Tendency  to  promote  them,  to  the  Distinction 
of  your  Favour.  ...  If  the  following  Attempt  to  trace 
Liberty,  from  the  first  Ages  down  to  her  excellent  Establish- 
ment in  Great  Britain,  can  at  all  merit  your  Approbation, 
and  prove  an  entertainment  to  your  Royal  Highness;  if 
it  can  in  any  Degree  answer  the  Dignity  of  the  Subject, 
and  of  the  name  under  which  I  presume  to  shelter  it;  I 
have  my  best  Reward:  particularly,  as  it  affords  me  an 
Opportunity  of  declaring  that  I  am,  with  the  greatest  Zeal 
and  Respect,  Sir, 


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"Your  Royal  Highness's  most  obedient  and  devoted 
servant, 

"James  Thomson." 

The  terms  of  the  dedication  axe  especially  interesting  in  view  of 
the  fact  that  Prince  Frederick's  zeal  for  liberty  took  the  form  of 
sharp  opposition  to  all  the  measures  of  his  father  and  of  his  father's 
minister,  Walpole,  and  that  he  was  at  this  time  completely  estranged 
from  his  father.  His  generous  encouragement  of  literature — in 
marked  contrast  to  Walpole's  indifference — brought  to  his  party 
the  support  of  many  of  the  leading  writers, — Fielding,  Glover, 
Lyttleton,  as  well  as  Thomson.  Although  it  required  a  good  deal 
of  imagination  to  see  in  the  feeble  Frederick  a  true  patriot,  devoted 
to  liberty,  these  writers  were  equal  to  the  task. 

History  of  the  Literature  of  the  Reign  of  Louis  XIV.     By 
Claude  Francois  Lambert.    Paris,  1751. 

"  To  the  King.     [Louis  XV.] 

"Sir: 

"In  presenting  to  Your  Majesty  the  history  of  literature 
of  the  reign  of  your  august  grandfather,  I  have  the  honor 
to  offer  to  you  the  history  of  a  reign  as  illustrious  for  letters 
as  for  arms,  a  reign  not  second  in  sublime  geniuses  or  heroic 
warriors.  In  vain  Greece  has  glorified  the  age  of  Alexander 
and  Rome  that  of  Augustus;  the  age  of  Louis  XIV,  I  do 
not  hesitate  to  say,  is  infinitely  superior  by  the  multitude 
of  excellent  works  which  distinguish  it,  and  by  the  master- 
pieces which  are  every  day  the  admiration  of  connoisseurs, 
and  which  will  serve  for  all  time  as  models  and  subjects  for 
imitation  by  the  greatest  masters. 

"This  age,  Sir,  has  again  another  advantage,  in  that,  as 
it  was  prepared  for  by  Francis  I,  the  restorer  of  letters  in 
France,  it  is  equally  sustained  by  Your  Majesty,  who 
judges  with  precision  of  the  merits  and  talents  of  all,  and 
whose  beneficent  hand  scatters  appropriate  recompense. 

"Indeed,  Sir,  the  age  which  you  have  made  illustrious, 
as  conqueror  from  Anglois  to  Fontenoy  and  as  pacificator 


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of  Europe  to  Aix-la-Chapelle — this  age  will  give  a  new 
luster  to  the  reign  of  Louis  the  Great  and  will  offer  to  pos- 
terity the  same  wonders  to  admire.     I  have  the  honor  to 
be,  with  very  profound  respect 
"Sir, 

"Of  Your  Majesty, 
"The  very  humble  and  very  obedient  servant,  and  very 
faithful  subject, 

"Lambert,  Priest." 

The  History  of  the  Heavens,  Considered  according  to  the 
Notions  of  the  Poets  and  Philosophers,  Compared  with 
the  Doctrines  of  Moses.  Being  an  Inquiry  into  the 
Origine  of  Idolatry,  and  the  Mistakes  of  Philosophers 
upon  the  Formation  and  Influences  of  the  Celestial 
Bodies.  Translated  from  the  French  of  the  Abbe 
Pluche,  by  J.  B.  De  Freval,  Esq.     London,  1752. 

"To  His  Royal  Highness  Prince  George: 

"Sir, 

"The  homage  I  here  take  the  Hberty  to  offer,  has  no 
other  motive  than  my  true  zeal  for  Your  Royal  Highness, 
and  a  passionate  desire  of  evidencing  that  zeal.  And, 
indeed.  Sir,  who  would  not  be  animated  by  those  sentiments 
for  a  young  prince  born  of  the  Two  most  illustrious  Per- 
sonages in  Europe?  We  already  discern  their  virtues  in 
your  looks,  and  shall  soon  see  You,  copying  from  those 
accompHsh'd  models,  become,  what  They  truly  are,  the 
delight  of  every  Briton,  and  the  admiration  of  the  whole 
world. 

"The  book  I  now  presume  to  offer  to  Your  Royal  High- 
ness, is  no  more  than  a  translation  of  a  work  from  the 
French,  whose  author  has  made,  and  is  still  making,  him- 
self famous  by  many  excellent  and  useful  productions. 
He  particularly  signalizes  himself  herein,  by  rectifying  a 
multitude  of  false  notions,   which  had,   for  many  ages, 


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prevailed  among  the  learned,  concerning  the  origin  of  the 
heathen  deities. 

"Your  Royal  Highness,  whose  noble  aspect,  though  at 
an  age  remote  from  puberty,  gives  presages  both  of  genius 
and  greatness  of  mind  to  every  beholder,  will  in  a  short 
time  comprehend  the  purport  and  relish  the  beauties  of 
this  history,  the  reading  whereof  cannot  fail  of  affording 
Your  Royal  Highness  much  pleasure  and  delight. 

"May  You,  Sir,  make  the  swiftest  progress  in  every 
branch  of  science!  May  You,  closely  following  the  steps 
of  the  August  Persons  that  gave  You  birth,  from  their 
example,  at  length  shine  with  so  many  excellencies,  that 
the  Crown  itself  may  not  be  capable  of  adding  any  thing 
to  their  lustre ! 

"These,  Sir,  are  the  most  ardent  wishes  of  him,  who  has 
the  ambition  to  be,  with  the  most  inviolable  attachment, 
and  most  profound  respect, 

"Your  Royal  Highness's 

"  Most  obedient  and 

"Most  devoted  servant, 

"J.  B.  deFreval." 

Bibliothec  of  Mediceo:  Lavrentianae  Catalogus.     1752. 

"To  Franciscus  Caesar,  Emperor  of  the  Romans,  Great 
Leader  of  Etruria,  etc.,  etc.,  Antonius  Marcia  Biscionius, 
Greetings : 

"Long  and  often  had  I  considered  in  mind,  oh  most 
august  Caesar,  whether  I  should  offer  to  Your  Supreme 
Majesty  this  humble  work  of  my  talent,  particularly  since 
not  less  than  a  period  of  five  lustrums  (25  years)  had  already 
elapsed  since  I  had  taken  my  hand  from  the  writing  tablet 
and  had  thrown  away  nearly  all  hope  of  sending  this  work 
forth  into  the  public  light,  both  on  account  of  the  magni- 
tude and  amplitude  of  it,  my  truly  slender  genius,  and 
the  weakness  of  my  strength,  and  also  on  account  of  the 
pedantry  of  certain  people. 


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"For  all  things  to  which  one  applies  (especially  the 
different  ones)  require  a  free  and  unimpeded  mind  lest 
excellent  undertakings,  scarcely  begun,  grow  cold  and 
become  abandoned  in  their  very  beginning. 

"But  as  it  was  pleasing  to  God,  Your  Royal  Majesty 
has  excited  me  who  was  inert  and  almost  asleep  and  so 
with  certain  new  light  transmitted  to  the  eye  of  my  mind, 
the  shadows  having  been  immediately  shattered,  I  have 
felt  myself  endowed  with  tranquillity  and  freedom  (of 
action).  Especially  at  this  time  when  by  Royal  Munifi- 
cence— Your  most  honorable  doing — I  found  myself,  though 
undeserving,  honored  by  the  title  of  Royal  Prefect  of  the 
Medicean  Laurentian  library ;  then  with  a  more  eager  mind 
and  a  bolder  desire  I  put  myself  to  resuming  anew  the 
neglected  work.  You,  indeed,  in  whom  envy,  ignorance, 
and  the  other  pests  of  the  human  race,  were  absent, — even 
as  Hercules  did  in  the  Garden  of  the.  Hesperides  after  the 
Dragon  was  killed, — have  thrown  open  a  free  avenue  to  me 
so  that  I  might  be  able  to  enjoy  its  golden  apples,  manifestly 
its  richest  and  most  precious  treasure,  for  the  public  utility 
and  the  increase  of  literature.  In  return  then  for  this  very 
great  and  singvdar  benefice,  immortal  thanks  are  due  you 
from  me  which  I  altogether  despair  of  repaying  even  in 
the  least. 

"  Now  by  chance  may  Your  Royal  Majesty  deign  to  incline 
your  most  humane  ears  to  my  earnest  prayers :  by  which  I 
pray  and  beseech  you  that  this  little  gift  of  mine  you  may 
accept  with  pleasure  as  a  token  of  an  obsequious  and  grateful 
mind,  and  may  you  not  disdain  to  protect  me,  entirely  sub- 
dued to  you,  under  the  Shadow  of  Your  Eagle's  Wings. 

"At  Florence,  February,  1752." 

(From  the  Latin.) 

The  British  Grammar.     By  William  Grey  (?).     1762. 

"To  her  Most  Excellent  Majesty  Charlotte,  Queen  of 
Great  Britain,  etc.  etc. 


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"Madam: 

"Permit  me  to  lay  at  Your  Majesty's  Feet  an  Essay 
towards  Speaking  and  Writing  Grammatically,  and  Indit- 
ing Elegantly  the  Language  of  the  bravest,  wisest,  most 
powerful,  and  respectable  Body  of  People  upon  the  Face 
of  the  Globe!  Highly  distinguished  with  the  additional 
Glory,  of  being  the  Vernacular  Tongue  of  the  most  Virtuous, 
most  Potent  and  best  Beloved  Monarch  upon  Earth.  A 
Language,  Madam,  which  has  received  fresh  Lustre  from 
its  being  now  spoken  by  a  Queen  the  Darling  of  the  People, 
whose  Tongues  joyfully  proclaim  their  Gratitude,  and 
whose  Hearts  (united  in  the  firmest  and  most  dutiful 
Attachment)  will  always  exult  to  hear  Your  Majesty  ex- 
press your  inejffable  Goodness  and  all-attracting  Affability 
in  the  refined  and  comprehensive  English  Energy!  in  the 
manly  Diction  of  Britons! 

"If  the  following  Sheets  should  have  the  Happiness  to 
be  entertaining  to  your  Majesty,  inexpressible  Satisfaction 
will  redound  to  him  who  has  the  Honour  to  be,  with  the 
most  profound  Reverence, 
"Madam 

"Your  Majesty's 

"  Most  Faithful,  Most  obedient 

"And  Most  Humble  Servant 

"The  Author." 

(In  the  library  of  Mr.  G.  A.  Plimpton.  The  name  of  the  author  has 
been  written  in  pencil.) 

A  New  Geographical  and  Historical  Grammar :  wherein  the 
Geographical  Part  is  truly  Modern;  and  the  present 
state  of  the  several  Kingdoms  of  the  World  is  so  Inter- 
spersed as  to  render  the  Study  of  Geography  both 
Entertaining  and  Instructive.  By  Mr.  Salmon.  London, 
1766. 

"To  His  Majesty  King  George  the  Third,  And  to  the 
British  Princes  and  Princesses,  His  Royal  Brothers  and 


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Sisters,  this  new  Geographical  and  Historical  Grammar  is 
Humbly  Dedicated  by  the  Author 

"Thomas  Salmon." 

History  of  Danish  Noblemen.     By  Tycho   de   Hofman. 
1777. 

[To  King  Christian  VII.] 

"High  and  Mighty  Monarch, 

"Most  Gracious  Hereditary  King  and  Master: 

"On  this  most  joyful  day — the  day  on  which  Heaven 
presented  Denmark,  in  the  person  of  your  Majesty,  with 
the  best  King,  and  on  which  a  year  ago  your  Majesty  by 
public  utterance  expressed  a  great  affection  for  your 
Majesty's  loyal  subjects — I  make  bold  to  present  to  your 
Majesty,  in  most  profound  humility,  this  work  dedicated 
by  its  author  to  your  Majesty's  grandfather  of  blessed 
memory,  King  Christian  VI.  The  great  favor  with  which 
your  Majesty  regards  the  fine  arts  and  the  sciences  has 
encouraged  me  to  most  humbly  hope  that  your  Majesty 
will  regard  this  work  with  the  same  favor  with  which  your 
Majesty's  ancestors  regarded  the  illustrious  and  deservedly 
popular  Danish  men,  an  account  of  whose  careers  is  con- 
tained herein.  I  shall  deem  myself  happy  if  your  Majesty 
will  accept  this  as  a  token  of  the  most  profound  and  humble 
devotion  with  which  I  am, 

"High  and  Mighty  Monarch,  Most  Gracious  Hereditary 
King  and  Master, 

"Your  Majesty's 

"Most  humble  subject  and  servant, 

"Anna  Magdalena,  widow  of  Sol.  Godiche. 

"Kisbenhavn,  January  29,  1777." 

A  General  History  of  Music,  etc.     By  Charles  Bumey. 
The  second  edition,  1789. 

"To  the  Queen: 

"Madam,  The  condescension  with  which  your  Majesty 
has  been  pleased  to  permit  your  name  to  stand  before  the 


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following  History,  may  justly  reconcile  the  author  to  his 
favourite  study,  and  convince  him,  that  whatever  may  be 
said  by  the  professors  of  severer  wisdom,  the  hours  which 
he  has  bestowed  upon  Music  have  been  neither  dishonour- 
ably, nor  unprofitably  spent. 

"The  science  of  musical  sounds,  though  it  may  have  been 
depreciated,  as  appealing  only  to  the  ear,  and  affording 
nothing  more  than  a  momentary  and  fugitive  delight,  may 
be  with  justice  considered  as  the  art  that  tmites  corporal 
with  intellectual  pleasure,  by  a  species  of  enjoyment  which 
gratifies  sense  without  weakening  reason ;  and  which,  there- 
fore, the  Great  may  cultivate  without  debasement,  and  the 
Good  enjoy  without  depravation. 

"Those  who  have  most  diligently  contemplated  the 
state  of  man,  have  found  it  beset  with  vexations,  which 
can  neither  be  repelled  by  splendor,  nor  eluded  by  obscurity ; 
to  the  necessity  of  combating  these  intrusions  of  discontent, 
the  ministers  of  pleasure  were  indebted  for  that  kind  re- 
ception, which  they  have  perhaps  too  indiscriminately  ob- 
tained .  Pleasure  and  innocence  ought  never  to  be  separated ; 
yet  we  seldom  find  them  otherwise  than  at  variance,  except 
when  Music  brings  them  together. 

"To  those  who  know  that  Music  is  among  your  Majesty's 
recreations,  it  is  not  necessary  to  display  its  purity  or  assert 
its  dignity.  May  it  long  amuse  your  leisure,  not  as  a  relief 
from  evil,  but  as  an  augmentation  of  good;  not  as  a  diver- 
sion from  care,  but  as  a  variation  of  felicity.  Such,  Madam, 
is  my  sincerest  wish,  in  which  I  can  however  boast  no  pe- 
culiarity of  reverence  or  zeal ;  for  the  virtues  of  your  Majesty 
are  universally  confessed;  and  however  the  inhabitants  of 
the  British  empire  may  differ  in  their  opinions  upon  other 
questions,  they  all  behold  your  excellences  with  the  same 
eye,  and  celebrate  them  with  the  same  voice;  and  to  that 
name  which  one  nation  is  echoing  to  another,  nothing  can 
be  added  by  the  respectful  admiration  and  humble  gratitude 
of,  Madam, 


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"Your    Majesty's    most    obedient   and    most    devoted 
servant, 

"Charles  Bumey." 

This  dedication  was  written  by  Dr.  Johnson ,  who  supplied  many 
dedications  for  his  friends.  Mr.  H.  B.  Wheatley,  in  his  Dedications 
of  Books,  prints  the  following  list  of  those  mentioned  by  Boswell: 

1743  James's  Medicinal  Dictionary.     To  Dr.  Mead. 

1752  Mrs.  Lennox's  Female  Quixote.    To  the  Earl  of  Middlesex. 

1753  Mrs.  Lennox's  Shakespeare  Illustrated.  To  the  Earl  of 
Orrerey. 

1756  Wm.  Payne's  Introduction  to  the  Game  of  Draughts. 
To  the  Earl  of  Rochford. 

1758  Angell's  Stenography.     To  Charles  Duke  of  Richmond. 

1760  Baretti's  Italian  and  English  Dictionary.  To  Don  Felix, 
Marquis  of  Abreu. 

1762  John  Kennedy's  System  of  Astronomical  Chronology. 
To  the  King. 

1763  Hoole's  Translation  of  Tasso.     To  the  Queen. 

1766  Gwyn's  London  and  Westminster  Improved.    To  the  King. 

1767  George  Adam's  Treatise  on  the  Globes.     To  the  King. 
1767  Roger  Ascham's  English  Works,  edited  by  the  Rev.  James 

Bennet.     To  the  Earl  of  Shaftesbury. 

1777  Bishop  Z.  Pearce's  Posthumous  Works  (Commentary  on 
the  Four  Evangelists  and  the  Acts  of  the  Apostles).     To  the  King. 

They  are  reprinted  in  the  fifth  volume  of  the  Oxford  edition  of 
Johnson's  works. 

Illustrations  of  Blair's  Grave.     By  William  Blake.     1808. 
"To  the  Queen: 

"The  Door  of  Death  is  made  of  gold, 
That  mortal  eyes  cannot  behold ; 
But,  when  the  mortal  eyes  are  clos'd. 
And  cold  and  pale  the  limbs  repos'd. 
The  soul  awakes;  and,  wond'ring  sees 
In  her  mild  hand  the  golden  keys : 
The  Grave  is  Heaven's  Golden  Gate 
And  rich  and  poor  around  it  wait; 
O  Shepherdess  of  England's  fold. 
Behold  this  Gate  of  Pearl  and  Gold ! 


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"To  dedicate  to  England's  Queen 
The  visions  that  my  soul  has  seen, 
And,  by  her  kind  permission  bring 
What  I  have  borne  on  solemn  wing. 
From  the  vast  regions  of  the  Grave, 
Before  her  throne  my  wings  I  wave; 
Bowing  before  my  Sovereign's  feet, 
*  The  Grave  produc'd  these  Blossoms  sweet. 
In  mild  repose  from  earthly  strife; 
The  blossoms  of  Eternal  life!'  " 

The  History  of  Hindustan,  its  Arts,  and  its  Sciences,  as 
Connected  with  the  History  of  the  Other  Great  Empires 
of  Asia,  during  the  Most  Recent  Periods  of  the  World. 
By  the  Author  of  Indian  Antiquities.     London,  1820. 

"To  His  Royal  Highness  Prince  Augustus  Frederick. 
Duke  of  Sussex,  K.  G.,  D.  C.  L.,  Earl  of  Inverness,  Baron 
of  Arklow,  &c.,  &c.,  &c.,  &c.,  and  what  far  transcends  all 
titles,  the  Patron  of  Genius  and  Friend  of  Toiling  Science, 
these  pages  are  respectfully  and  gratefully  inscribed,  by 
His  Royal  Highness's  most  humble,  obliged,  and  devoted 
servant, 

"Thomas  Maurice." 

Specimens  of  the  Russian  Poets.  By  Sir  John  Bowring. 
1823. 

"To  His  Imperial  Majesty  Alexander  I,  autocrat  of  all 
the  Russias,  etc.,  etc. 

"The  flattering  mark  of  approbation  with  which  you 
were  pleased  to  honour  the  former  volume  of  the  Russian 
anthology,  induces  me  to  inscribe  the  name  of  your  Majesty 
upon  the  dedication  page  of  this. 

"When  the  delusions  of  conquest  and  the  records  of 
political  changes  shall  have  passed  away,  the  purer  and 
nobler  triumphs  of  civilization  and  literature  will  be  remem- 


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bered,  and  bear  along  the  stream  of  time,  to  the  gratiiude 
of  future  generations,  the  names  of  their  illustrious  pro- 
tectors. To  have  contributed  to  their  influence  is  a  glory 
which  no  time  can  tarnish — it  is  worthy  of  the  worthiest — • 
it  will  be  your  highest  title — a  title  brighter  than  the  bright- 
est jewel  of  your  imperial  crown. 

"The  destiny  of  millions  is  in  your  Majesty's  hands. 
Under  your  auspices,  your  empire  has  made  gigantic 
strides  in  knowledge  and  in  power.  The  future  is  formed 
by  the  present.  O,  be  it  your  most  imperial  ambition  to 
make  that  knowledge  and  that  power  the  source  of  virtue 
and  of  liberty!  Such  are  the  wishes,  and  such  the  hopes 
of  one  to  whom  your  reputation  is  dearer  than  to  a  thousand 
flatterers,  and  who  is,  in  all  sincerity, 

"Your  Majesty's  most  obedient,  and  devoted  humble 
servant, 

"John  Bowring. 

"Boulogne  Prison,* 

"Oct.  20,  1822." 

Journal  of  a  Residence  in  Ashantee.  By  Joseph  Dupuis, 
Esq.,  late  His  Britannic  Majesty's  Envoy  and  Consul 
for  that  Kingdom,  Comprising  Notes  and  Researches 
Relative  to  the  Gold  Coast  and  the  Interior  of  Western 
Africa;  Chiefly  Collected  from  Arabic  Mss.,  and  Informa- 
tion Communicated  by  the  Moslems  of  Guinea :  To  which 
is  prefixed  An  Account  of  the  Origin  and  Causes  of  the 
Present  War.  Illustrated  with  a  Map  and  Plates. 
London,  1824. 

DEDICATION 

"To  the  icing's  Most  Excellent  Majesty,  George  the 
Fourth,  &c.,  &c.,  &c. 

'  In  1822,  Bowring  was  arrested  at  Calais,  "being  the  bearer  of  de- 
spatches to  the  Portuguese  ministers  announcing  the  intended  invasion 
of  the  Peninsula  by  the  Bourbon  government  of  France.  He  was 
thrown  into  prison  and  passed  a  fortnight  in  solitary  confinement." 
Diet.  Nat.  Biog. 


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"Sire, 

"In  conformity  with  the  permission  which  I  have  re- 
ceived, I  now  place  under  the  patronage  of  your  Majesty's 
august  name,  a  volume  exhibiting  the  intimate  and  political 
feelings  of  the  Sovereign  of  Ashantee,  demonstrative  of  a 
friendly  regard,  as  well  towards  your  Royal  person  as  to 
the  commercial  prosperity  of  the  British  Colonies  on  the 
Gold  Coast;  the  contents  of  which  I  stood  pledged  to  make 
known  to  your  Majesty. 

"With  sentiments  of  the  purest  attachment  to  your 
Majesty's  service,  and  to  the  honour  and  interest  of  the 
crown, 

"I  remain, 

"With  the  profoundest  veneration, 
"Sire, 
"Your  Majesty's  most  faithful  Subject, 
"and  dutiful  Servant 

"Joseph  Dupuis." 

Lexicon,    Arabian-Latin.     By   George    Wilhelm    Freytag. 
Halle,  1830. 

"To  Frederic  William  III,  King  and  Most  August  and 
Powerful  Master,  Father  of  the  Fatherland,  Protector  and 
Most  Liberal  Patron  of  Letters,  Arts,  and  all  the  sciences, 
This,  the  fruit  of  his  studies,  the  height  of  which  is  equalled 
only  by  the  grateful  and  submissive  spirit  of  devotion, 
George  William  Freytag,  most  devoted  Worshipper  of  the 
glory  of  your  kingdom,  Gives  Greeting  (or  Dedicates  to 
you)." 

Geology  of  the  South-East  of  England.    By  Gideon  Mantell, 
F.R.S.     1833. 

"To  his  most  excellent  Majesty,  William  the  Fourth, 
this  work  on  the  geology  of  the  South-East  of  England  is, 
with    his    Majesty's    gracious    permission,    most   humbly 


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inscribed,  by  his  Majesty's  faithful  and  devoted  subject, 
and  servant, 

"  The  Author. 
"  Castle  Place,  Lewes; 
"April,  1833." 

Civil  Annals  of  the  Kingdom  of  the  Two  Sicilies.     By  the 
Secretary  of  Internal  Affairs  (Niccolo  Santangelo).     1833. 

"  To  His  Majesty,  Ferdinand  II,  King  of  the  Two 
Sicilies: 

"  The  Arts  of  Peace  come  into  the  presence  of  Your 
Majesty,  happy  to  be  received  in  the  palace  of  Frederick, 
first  to  foster  the  Italian  Muses,  and  of  Robert,  the  learned 
admirer  of  the  passionate  singer  of  Laura. 

"  Ministers  to  the  glory  and  the  prosperity  of  the  htmian 
family,  these  immortal  daughters  of  Memor}^  have  revived 
a  thousand  times  the  bringing  from  heaven  to  earth  of  the 
sacred  fire,  by  which  the  ancient  peoples  symbolised  the 
wisdom  that  civilizes  rude  customs,  estabhshes,  sustains, 
and  protects  the  empire,  and  renders  the  hand  and  mind  of 
man  the  workers  of  marvels.  Companions  of  victory  of 
the  valiant  Norman,  Charles  III,  they  are  the  ameliorators 
of  the  long  series  of  offenses  of  the  sluggish  government  of 
the  viceroy,  and  even  in  those  difficult  times,  made  more 
glorious  the  country  of  Pythagoras  and  Archimedes. 

"  Revived  by  Your  Grace  to  hopes  still  greater,  they 
undertake  to-day  to  collect  the  annals  of  your  kingdom 
not  with  the  intention  of  celebrating  great  deeds,  an  im- 
portant office  which  the  good  king  entrusts  faithfully  to 
posterity,  but  with  the  most  holy  desire  to  assist  your 
purpose  in  the  increase  of  civilization  among  your  subjects. 

"  To  this  purpose  is  added  that  of  preparing  by  means 
of  noble  history  some  salutary  lessons  for  the  sons  of  your 
kingdom,  who  fervently  implore  heaven  in  their  public 
devotions  to  bless  your  happy  marriage  with  the  Royal 


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Lady  who,  for  her  high  virtues  and  sweet  manners,  is  the 
tender  object  of  your  love,  and  of  respectful  and  universal 
admiration. 

"Such,  0  master,  is  the  design  with  which  I  have  under- 
taken to  write  the  civil  annals  of  your  Kingdom  of  the 
Two  Sicilies.  And  since  Your  Majesty  deigns  as  a  recom- 
pense for  the  undertaking,  to  allow  the  annals  to  be  dedi- 
cated to  you,  I  shall  prove,  in  my  unspeakable  gratitude. 
to  be  not  all  unworthy  of  your  sovereign  mercy,  taking 
great  care  not  to  darken  in  the  least  the  candid  truth,  which 
is  the  test  of  him  who  writes  of  his  own  times  and  of  the 
magnanimity  of  living  princes. 

"Thus  in  this  paper  the  homage  of  fidelity  and  devotion 
will  be  added  to  that  profound  veneration  which  I  do  myself 
the  honor  to  declare.     Naples,  January  the  third,  1833. 

"  Of  Your  Majesty  the  most  humble  and  faithful  subject. 

"The  Compiler." 

Saga  Kings.     By  Snorre  Sturleson.     Christiania,  1838. 

[To  Charles  XV,  King  of  Sweden  and  Norway.] 

"The  history  of  every  country  has  periods  marked  by 
important  events,  pregnant  of  consequences,  which  the 
nation  considers  as  epoch-making,  as  dark  or  bright  points 
in  its  political  experience.  Norway's  history  likewise  fur- 
nishes such  epochs,  but  none  presents  to  the  view  a  m^ore 
durable  prosperity,  better  established  independence,  or 
freer  enjoyment  of  all  the  blessings  which  a  political  com- 
munity may  possess  than  your  Majesty's  wise  reign,  when 
King  and  people  unite  their  efforts  for  the  country's  good. 
"The  historical  work,  a  translation  of  which  is  humbly 
presented  to  your  Majesty,  recalls  a  similar  period  in  the 
distant  past.  When  the  Norwegian  people  learn  of  the 
free  and  happy  state  of  that  vanished  generation,  they  will 
feel  grateful  to  the  noble  king  who  has  again  by  his  bene- 
ficent reign  called  them  to  freedom  and  national  prosperity. 
"  It  is  the  connection  between  the  old  time  and  the  new 


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which  the  Saga  Book  of  the  great  historian,  Snorre  Sturlo- 
son,  spanning  the  chasm  of  centuries,  recalls  in  the  labors 
of  those  who  devote  themselves  to  tlie  writing  of  modern 
history;  for  Snorre  has,  with  characters  of  gold,  traced  the 
history  in  the  Saga  Book  of  that  libert}'^  which  was  covered 
over  with  the  mold  of  past  ages,  and  your  Majesty's  wisdom 
has,  by  accepting  the  fundamental  state  of  things  which 
restores  to  the  people  their  ancient  priWleges,  given  now 
life  to  their  buried  liberty. 

"  The  undersigned,  therefore,  ventures  most  humbly  to 
dedicate  to  your  Majesty  the  present  work  and  bogs  \\nir 
Majesty  to  accept  the  dedication  with  that  royal  gracious- 
ness  of  which  he  has  received  on  many  occasions  prcK>fs 
the  memory  of  which  will  ever  abide.  He  invokes  Heaven's 
blessing  upon  your  Majesty  and  wishes  as  a  loyal  subject 
that  the  beneficence  of  a  long  life  may  bless  for  many  years 
to  come  a  grateful  and  affectionate  people. 
"Most  humbly, 

"Jacob  All." 

The  Work  Table  and  Embroidery  Frame  Companion:  A 
Manual  of  all  the  Accomplishments  Dependent  upon  the 
Needle.     By  A.  M.     London,  1843. 

"To  her  most  gracious  Majesty  the  Queen. 

"  Madam, 

'This  manual  of  all  the  accomplishments  dependent 
upon  the  needle,  is  most  humbly  and  most  respectfully 
dedicated  to  your  Majesty,  by  one,  who  fools  conscien- 
tiously urged  thereto,  in  consequence  of  the  scarcely  par- 
alleled popularity  of  a  former  work,  entitled  'Woman  as 
Virgin,  Wife,  and  Mother;'  in  which  an  elevated  morality, 
extension  of  industry,  refinement  of  manner,  and  improved 
taste,  were  warmly  advocated,  and  because  it  is  presumed 
that  the  same  qualities  form  a  conspicuous  feature  in  the 
present  work.     As  a  gift  of  love  or  friendship,  in  the  hands 


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of  a  Father,  a  Brother,  or  one  who  is  on  the  point  of  mar- 
riage, this  Httle  work  possesses  peculiar  appropriateness; 
and,  in  all  Families  and  Schools  it  would  be  the  index  to 
economy  of  time,  and  the  cultivation  of  the  most  elegant 
as  well  as  useful  Female  Accomplishments.  It  is  in  this 
singleness  of  purpose,  that  the  Authoress  ventures  on  the 
present  Dedication;  and  also  in  a  profound  conviction  of 
the  high  advantages  which  have  been  diffused  among  her 
Sex  by  your  Majesty's  august  example.  In  conclusion,  she 
will  ever  remain,  Madam,  your  Majesty's  most  dutiful, 
most  loyal,  and  devoted  subject." 

The  Literature  of  the  Kymry.     By  Thomas  Stephens.    1849. 

"  To  His  Royal  Highness  Albert  Edward  Prince  of  Wales, 
is  respectfully  dedicated,  by  permission  of  Her  Majesty  the 
Queen,  the  following  record  of  literary  and  intellectual 
labours  among  the  Ancient  and  Illustrious  Race  whose 
representative  he  is;  in  the  hope,  that  when  future  years 
have  extended  his  experience  and  ripened  his  judgment, 
he  may  feel  a  regard  for  the  inhabitants  of  the  Principality, 
as  strong  as  is  their  affection  for  the  Heir  Apparent  to  the 
throne  of  Britain." 

To  the  Queen.     By  Alfred  Tennyson.     (Prefixed  to  the 
first  Laureate  edition,  1 85 1 ) . 

"Revered,  beloved — O  you  that  hold 
A  nobler  office  upon  earth 
Than  arms,  or  power  of  brain,  or  birth 
Could  give  the  warrior  kings  of  old, 

"  Victoria, — since  your  Royal  grace 
To  one  of  less  desert  allows 
This  laurel  greener  from  the  brows 
Of  him  that  utter'd  nothing  base; 


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"And  should  your  greatness,  and  the  care 
That  yokes  with  empire,  yield  you  time 
To  make  demand  of  modern  rhyme 
If  aught  of  ancient  worth  be  there ; 

"  Then — while  a  sweeter  music  wakes, 

And  thro'  wild  March  the  throstle  calls, 
Where  all  about  your  palace-walls 
The  sun-lit  almond-blossom  shakes — 

"Take,  Madam,  this  poor  book  of  song; 
For  tho'  the  faults  were  thick  as  dust 
In  vacant  chambers,  I  could  trust 
Your  kindness.     May  you  rule  us  long, 

"  And  leave  us  rulers  of  your  blood 
As  noble  till  the  latest  day ! 
May  children  of  our  children  say, 
'She  wrought  her  people  lasting  good; 

Her  court  was  pure;  her  life  serene; 
God  gave  her  peace;  her  land  reposed; 
A  thousand  claims  to  reverence  closed 
In  her  as  Mother,  Wife  and  Queen ; 

"  *  And  statesmen  at  her  council  met 
Who  knew  the  seasons  when  to  take 
Occasion  by  the  hand,  and  make 
The  bounds  of  freedom  wider  yet 

" '  By  shaping  some  august  decree 

Which  kept  her  throne  unshaken  still. 
Broad-based  upon  her  people's  will, 
And  compass'd  by  the  inviolate  sea.' 

March,  1851." 


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Political  and  Parliamentary  History  of  Spain.     By  Juan 
Rico  y  Amat.     Madrid,  i860. 

"To  Her  Majesty  the  Queen  Dona  Isabel  II. 

"Lady: 

' '  The  benevolence  wi  th  which  Your  Ma  j  esty  has  thought 
worthy  to  admit  the  dedication  of  the  Political  and  Parlia- 
mentary History  of  Spain,  authorizing  by  your  sovereign 
resolution  of  the  6th  of  November  last  the  placing  of  the 
august  name  of  Your  Majesty  on  the  first  page,  is  already 
suflEicient  guerdon  and  abundant  recompense  for  the  labor 
and  sacrifice  which  the  editing  has  cost  me. 

"  Noble  and  enviable.  Lady,  is  the  providential  mission  of 
the  monarch  in  procuring  in  the  sphere  of  Government  the 
happiness  of  her  subjects  by  just  and  beneficent  laws:  but 
more  enviable  and  noble  still  that  which  her  elevated  posi- 
tion confers  of  scattering  in  the  society  which  she  governs 
the  gifts  of  royal  munificence,  gently  drying  the  tears  of  the 
unfortunate  and  elevating  the  arts  and  sciences  with  decor- 
ous protection,  which  neither  bespeaks  pride  in  the  one 
who  condescends  nor  humiliates  the  one  who  receives  it. 

"My  pen  to-day  echoes  the  immense  gratitude  which 
Spanish  letters  owe  to  Your  Majesty  and,  although  weak 
and  unauthorized,  it  is  just  that  I  leave  it  consigned  in  these 
broken  phrases  as  a  sincere  token,  on  the  other  hand,  of 
my  own  adhesion  to  Your  Majesty  and  of  my  monarchical 
sentiments. 

"But  it  is  not  alone  my  private  feelings  which  counsel 
and  oblige  me  to  direct  to-day  to  Your  Majesty  the  dedica- 
tion of  this  work,  but,  as  there  is  contained  in  it  the  history 
of  our  nation  in  the  present  century,  it  of  right  ought  to 
be  dedicated  to  your  Majesty  as  the  most  lawful  personi- 
fication, the  most  worthy  representative,  the  most  faithful 
depository  of  her  glories,  and  the  most  constant  and  dis- 
interested promoter  of  her  progress,  of  her  civilization,  and 
of  her  culture. 


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"  May  God  preserve  the  important  life  of  Your  Majesty 
many  years.     Madrid,  December  4,  i860. 
"Lady: 

"At  the  Royal  Feet  of  Your  Majesty. 

"Juan  Rico  y  Amat." 

(From  the  Spanish.) 

Idylls  of  the  King.     By  Alfred  Tennyson.     1862. 

"to  THE  MEMORY  OF  THE  PRINCE  CONSORT.' 

"These  to  His  Memory — since  he  held  them  dear, 
Perchance  as  finding  there  unconsciously 
Some  image  of  himself — I  dedicate, 
I  dedicate,  I  consecrate  with  tears — these  Idylls. 

"And  indeed  he  seems  to  me 
Scarce  other  than  my  own  ideal  knight, 
'Who  reverenced  his  conscience  as  his  king; 
Whose  glory  was,  redressing  human  wrong; 
Who  spake  no  slander,  no,  nor  listen'd  to  it; 
Who  loved  one  only  and  who  clave  to  her' — 
Her — over  all  whose  realms  to  their  last  isle. 
Commingled  with  the  gloom  of  imminent  war, 
The  shadow  of  his  loss  drew  like  eclipse, 
Darkening  the  world .    We  have  lost  him ;  he  is  gone. 
We  know  him  now;  all  narrow  jealousies 
Are  silent,  and  we  see  him  as  he  moved. 
How  modest,  kindly,  all  accomplish'd,  wise, 
With  what  sublime  repression  of  himself. 
And  in  what  limits,  and  how  tenderly; 
Not  swaying  to  this  faction  or  to  that ; 
Not  making  his  high  place  the  lawless  perch 
Of  wing'd  ambitions,  nor  a  vantage  ground 
For  pleasure;  but  through  all  this  tract  of  years 
Wearing  the  white  flower  of  a  blameless  life, 
*The  Prince  died  in  December,  1861. 


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Before  a  thousand  peering  littlenesses, 

In  that  fierce  light  which  beats  upon  a  throne, 

And  blackens  every  blot;  for  where  is  he, 

Who  dares  foreshadow  for  an  only  son 

A  lovelier  life,  a  more  unstain'd  than  his? 

Break  not,  O  woman' s-heart,  but  st  11  endure; 
Break  not,  for  thou  art  royal,  but  endure. 
Remembering  all  the  beauty  of  that  star 
Which  shone  so  close  beside  thee  that  ye  made 
One  light  together,  but  has  past  and  leaves 
The  Crown  a  lonely  splendor. 

May  all  love. 
His  love,  unseen  but  felt,  o'ershadow  thee. 
The  love  of  all  thy  sons  encompass  thee, 
The  love  of  all  thy  daughters  cherish  thee. 
The  love  of  all  thy  people  comfort  thee. 
Till  God's  love  set  thee  at  his  side  again!" 

Codex  Sinaiticus  Petropotitanus.  By  Konstantin  Tischen- 
dorf.     1862. 

"To  the  most  august,  powerful,  clement  Lord  and  Prince, 
Alexander  II,  Emperor  of  all  the  Russias,  etc.,  etc.,  etc." 

The  Iliad  of  Homer,  Rendered  into  English  Blank  Verse. 
By  Edward,  Earl  of  Derby.     New  York,  1865. 

"To  His  Royal  Highness,  Albert  Edward,  Prince  of 
Wales,  etc.,  etc.,  this  translation  of  the  Iliad  of  Homer  is, 
by  his  Royal  Highness's  gracious  permission,  with  profound 
respect  and  dutiful  attachment,  humbly  dedicated." 

Historical  Memorials  of  Westminster  Abbey.  By  the  Rev- 
erend Arthur  Penrhyn  Stanley,  D.D.,  Dean  of  West- 
minster.    2nd  edition,  1868. 

"To  her  most  gracious  Majesty,  Queen  Victoria,  with 
every  sentiment  of  loyal  and  respectful  gratitude  is  dedicated 


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this  humble  record  of  the  royal  and  national  sanctuary 
which  has  for  centuries  enshrined  the  varied  memories  of 
her  august  ancestors  and  the  manifold  glories  of  her  free 
and  famous  kingdom  and  which  witnessed  the  solemn  con- 
secration of  her  own  auspicious  reign  to  all  high  and  holy 
purposes." 

Muhit  el  Muhit.  By  Butrus  el  Bustani.  American  Press, 
Beyrout,  Syria.     1870. 

"This  I  have  presented  to  His  excellency,  the  Honorable, 
as  an  offering  to  His  exalted  Majesty  our  King,  the  Sublime 
excellency  of  our  Lord,  the  Sultan,  Son  of  the  Sultan, 
Sultan  of  the  two  Lands  and  Emperor  of  the  two  Seas,  the 
Sultan  Abdel  Aziz,  Khan, — continue  the  most  High  God 
in  the  days  of  his  lofty  sovereignty  in  might  and  prosperity, 
and  prolong  his  valor  and  power  and  rule  and  strength  and 
victory." 

(From  the  Arabic.) 

Historical  Sketch  of  the  Russian  Nobility  from  the  Middle 
of  the  Ninth  Century  to  the  End  of  the  Eighteenth 
Century.     By  Ivan  A.  Porai-koshitz.     1874. 

"To  His  Imperial  Majesty,  most  gracious  sovereign, 
Emperor  Alexander  II,  son  of  Nicholas,  by  his  high  consent 
I  dedicate  this  work  with  deep  devotion. 

"  Ivan  Porai-koshitz." 

(From  the  Russian.) 

Die  Ahnen.  Romance  by  Gustav  Freytag.  Leipzig, 
Germany.     7th  edition,  1876. 

"To  Her  Imperial  Highness  The  Crown  Princess  Victoria, 
Respectfully  Dedicated." 


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The  Defence  of  Lucknow.     By  Alfred  Tennyson.    1879. 

DEDICATORY    POEM    TO    THE    PRINCESS    ALICE  ^ 

"  Dead  Princess,  living  Power,  if  that  which  lived 
True  life,  live  on — and  if  the  fatal  kiss. 
Born  of  true  life  and  love,  divorce  thee  not 
From  earthly  love  and  life — if  what  we  call 
The  spirit  flash  not  all  at  once  from  out 
This  shadow  into  Substance — then  perhaps 
The  mellow'd  murmur  of  the  people's  praise 
From  thine  own  State,  and  all  our  breadth  of  realm, 
Where  Love  and  Longing  dress  thy  deeds  in  light, 
Ascends  to  thee;  and  this  March  morn  that  sees 
Thy  Soldier-brother's  bridal  orange-bloom 
Break  thro'  the  yews  and  cypress  of  thy  grave. 
And  thine  Imperial  mother  smile  again. 
May  send  one  ray  to  thee !  and  who  can  tell — 
Thou — England's  England-loving  daughter — thou 
Dying  so  English  thou  wouldst  have  her  flag 
Borne  on  thy  coffin — where  is  he  can  swear 
But  that  some  broken  gleam  from  our  poor  earth 
May  touch  thee,  while  remembering  thee,  I  lay 
At  thy  pale  feet  this  ballad  of  the  deeds 
Of  England,  and  her  banner  in  the  East?" 

The  Passion  Play  at  Ober-Ammergau.  By  John  P.  Jackson. 
1880. 

"To  his  most  gracious  majesty,  Ludwig  II,  King  of 
Bavaria,  the  illustrious  representative  of  a  noble  dynasty, 
under  whose  fostering  care  Ober-Ammergau  and  its  sacred 
tragedy  have  together  grown  and  flourished  for  centuries: 
the  genial  and  high-minded  patron  of  music  and  the  drama 
in  Germany,  this  volume,  which  owes  so  much  to  his  royal 
favor,  is,  with  permission,  most  respectfully  dedicated." 

'  The  Princess  Alice,  Grand  Duchess  of  Hesse-Darmstadt,  died 
December  14,  1878. 


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Bartolozzi  and  his  Works.     By  Andrew  White  Tuer.     1881. 

"Dedicated  by  gracious  permission  to  Her  Majesty  the 
Queen." 

The  Voyage  of  the  Vega  around  Asia  and  Europe.     By 
Baron  Adolf  Erick  Nordenskiold.     1881. 

"To  His  Majesty,  King  Oscar  II,  the  august  patron  of 
the  Vega  Expedition,  the  description  of  the  voyage  he  so 
nobly  and  generously  promoted  is  dedicated  with  profound- 
est  gratitude,  most  humbly, 

"A.  E.  Nordenskiold." 

Greek  and  Roman  Sculpture.     By  Walter  Copland  Perry. 
1882. 

"To  H.  I.  H.  the  Crown  Princess  of  Germany  and 
Prussia,  Princess  Royal  of  Great  Britain  and  Ireland, 
whose  skill  as  an  artist  has  made  her  a  discriminating  patron- 
ess of  art,  this  work  is  dedicated  with  profound  respect  by 
her  loyal  and  obedient  servant  the  author." 

Russian  Central  Asia.     By  Henry  Lansdell.     1885. 

"To  His  Imperial  Majesty  Alexander  III,  Emperor  and 
Autocrat  of  all  the  Russias,"  etc.,  etc. 

Civil  History  of  the  Italian  Kingdom.     By  Niccola  Nisco. 
Naples,  1885. 

"To  King  Humbert  I,  for  whom  awaits  the  glory  of 
establishing  courageously  in  liberty  and  in  peace  the  Italy 
united  by  his  great  father." 

The  Poetry  of  Sport    By  the  Duke  of  Beaufort,  K.  G. 
1885. 

DEDICATION  TO  H.  R.  H.  THE  PRINCE  OF  WALES: 

"Having  received  permission  to  dedicate  these  volumes, 
the  Badminton  Library  of  Sports  and  Pastimes,   to  His 


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Royal  Highness,  the  Prince  of  Wales,  I  do  so,  feeling  that 
I  am  dedicating  them  to  one  of  the  best  and  keenest  sports- 
men of  our  time.  I  can  say,  from  personal  observation, 
that  there  is  no  man  who  can  extricate  himself  from  a 
bustling  and  pushing  crowd  of  horsemen,  when  a  fox  breaks 
covert,  more  dexterously  and  quickly  than  H.  R.  H.;  and 
that  when  hounds  run  hard  over  a  big  country,  no  man  can 
take  a  line  of  his  own  and  live  with  them  better.  Also, 
when  the  wind  has  been  blowing  hard,  often  have  I  seen 
H.  R.  H.  knocking  over  driven  grouse  and  partridges  and 
high-rocketing  pheasants  in  first-rate  workmanlike  style. 
I  consider  it  a  great  privilege  to  be  allowed  to  dedicate 
these  volumes  to  so  eminent  a  sportsman  as  H.  R.  H.  the 
Prince  of  Wales,  and  I  do  so  with  sincere  feelings  of  respect 
and  esteem  and  loyal  affection. 

"Beaufort." 

The  Fourth  Voyage  to  Central  Asia.  By  Nikolai  Przhe- 
valski.     1 888. 

"To  His  Imperial  Highness  Heir  Apparent  Tzarvich 
Nicholas,  son  of  Alexander,  eminent  patronizer  of  my  newest 
explorations  in  Central  Asia,  with  sentiments  of  deep 
gratitude  most  devotedly,  I  dedicate  my  book  of  the  Staff- 
Office, 

"Major  General 

"Przhevalski." 
(From  the  Russian.) 

The  Founding  of  the  German  Empire  by  William  I.  By 
Heinrich  von  Sybel.  Translated  by  Marshall  Livingston 
Perrin,  Assisted  by  Gamaliel  Bradford,  Jr.     1890. 

"To  the  memory  of  Emperor  William  I,  with  reverence 
and  gratitude." 


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Arabic-English  Dictionary.    By  William  Thomson  Wortabet. 
1893. 

"  Dedicated  by  special  permission  to  His  Highness  Moham- 
med Tewfik,  Khedive  of  Egypt,  who  has  so  highly  promoted 
the  cause  of  Education  among  his  people.  By  His  High- 
ness's  most  humble  and  obedient  Servant, 

"  The  Author." 

Sir  Walter  Ralegh,  The  British  Dominion  of  the  West. 
By  Martin  A.  S.  Hume.     1897. 

'"To  her  who  is  the  first,  and  may  alone  be  justly  called 
the  Empress  of  the  Bretanes, '     Sir  Walter  Ralegh." 

Storia  Critica  di  Roma  Duranto  I  Primi  Cinque  Seccoli. 
By  Ettore  Pais.     1898. 

"To  his  Majesty  Vittorio  Emanuele  III,  King  of  Italy, 

promoter   of   all    civil    progress,    cultivator   of    Historical 

Studies — this  book,  written  in  the  name  of  Rome  and  of 

Italy   supreme   throughout   the   centuries   in   law,  in   the 

sciences,  in  art,  in   the    fifty-first    year    of    the    national 

liberation  and  the  first  of  the  enlarged  dominion  in  the 

Mediterranean. 

"Ettore  Pais." 

The  Vintage:  A  Romance  of  the  Greek  War  of  Independ- 
ence.    By  E.  F.  Benson.     1898. 

"This  Romance  dealing  with  the  regeneration  of  her 
people  is  dedicated  by  permission  to  her  Majesty,  Olga, 
Queen  of  the  Hellenes." 

Alfred    Lord    Tennyson:  A  Memoir — By  His  Son.     By 
Hallam  Tennyson.     1898. 

"  These  volumes  are  dedicated  by  permission  to  the  Queen. 


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"an  unpublished  version  of  'to  the  queen,'  1851. 

"The  noblest  men  methinks  are  bred, 
Of  ours  the  Anglo-Norman  race; 
And  in  the  world  the  noblest  place, 
Madam,  is  yours,  our  Queen  and  head. 

"Your  name  is  blown  on  every  wind, 
Your  flag  thro'  Austral  ice  is  borne, 
And  glimmers  to  the  northern  morn, 
And  floats  in  either  golden  Ind. 

"I  give  this  faulty  book  to  you. 

For,  tho'  the  faults  be  thick  as  dust 
In  vacant  chambers,  I  can  trust 
Yoiu"  Woman's  Nattu-e,  kind  and  true." 

History  of  the  Russian  Empire.     By  Nikolai  Karamzin. 
1899. 

"To  His  Majesty  the  Emperor  Alexander  I  (son  of  Paul) 
autocrat  of  all  the  Russias. 

"Sire, 

"I  offer  to  your  Majesty  with  veneration  the  fruits  of 
my  twelve  years  of  ardent  labor.  I  do  not  boast  about  my 
zeal  and  steadfastness:  encouraged  by  you,  could  I  fail  in 
it? 

"In  the  year  1811  in  the  most  happy  and  never  to  be 
forgotten  period  of  my  life,  I  read  to  your  majesty  some 
parts  of  this  history  about  the  horrors  of  Baty's  invasion, 
about  the  heroic  deeds  of  Dmitri  Donskoi,  at  the  very  time 
when  a  heavy  cloud  of  misfortune  was  hanging  over  Europe, 
threatening  also  our  dear  fatherland.  You  listened  with 
admirable  attention,  you  compared  the  long  past  with  the 
present,  and  you  did  not  envy  the  glorious  dangers  of  Dmitri 
as  you  foresaw  more  glorious  dangers  for  yourself.  The 
magnanimous  presentiment  was  fulfilled,  the  storm  broke 
over  all  Russia;  but  we  have  been  saved,  we  have  become 
famous,  the  enemy  is  destroyed,  Europe  free,  and  the  wis- 


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dom  of  Alexander  shines  resplendent  in  the  wreath  of 
immortality.  Your  Majesty!  If  the  happiness  of  your 
virtuous  heart  equals  your  glory,  then  you  are  the  happiest 
of  all  those  who  were  bom  on  earth. 

"A  new  epoch  has  begun.  The  future  is  known  to  God 
only,  but  should  we  judge  by  the  power  of  our  reason,  we 
can  expect  a  steady  peace  for  which  not  only  the  nations 
are  longing,  but  also  the  crowned  heads  who  desire  to  rule 
for  the  good  of  the  people,  for  the  improvement  of  morals, 
virtue,  science,  art,  and  public  and  private  prosperity. 
Having  by  a  victory  removed  the  obstacles  in  this  truly 
royal  action,  having  given  to  us  as  well  as  to  Europe  the 
golden  peace,  what  will  you  not  accomplish  in  the  strength 
of  your  manhood,  during  the  long  life,  destined  to  be  yours 
by  the  laws  of  nature,  and  the  warm  prayers  of  your 
subjects ! 

"Take  courage,  beloved  Monarch!  The  one  who  reads 
the  hearts  reads  the  thoughts,  history  tells  the  deeds  of 
magnanimous  sovereigns  and  inspires  love  to  their  sacred 
memory  in  the  most  remote  posterity. 

"Accept  this  favorable  book  which  serves  as  a  proof  of  it. 
The  history  of  a  nation  belongs  to  the  tzar  (ruler). 

"Sire!     Your  Majesty's  loyal  subject, 

"Nikolai  Karamzin." 
(From  the  Russian.) 

Rex  Regum — The  Likeness  of  Christ.   By  Sir  Wyke  Bayliss, 
K.B.,  F.S.A.     1905. 

"By  Command:  This  Tribute  to  the  King  of  Kings  is 
dedicated  to  Her  Most  Gracious  Majesty,  Victoria,  Queen 
Empress,  by  the  Author." 

Glimpses  of  Italian  Court  Life:   Happy   Days  in  Italia 
Adorata.     By  Tryphosa  Bates  Batcheller.     1906. 

"Dedicated  by  special  permission  to  Her  Most  Gracious 
Majesty,  Queen  Elena  of  Italy." 


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Toledo,  an  Historical  and  Descriptive  Account  of  the  City 
of  Generations.     By  Albert  F.  Calvert.     1907. 

"To  S.  A.  Infanta  Maria  Teresa,  in  whose  sympathy  the 
ancient  grandeur  is  Hnked  with  the  future  greatness  of 
Spain,  this  volume,  with  an  assurance  of  sincere  esteem,  is 
dedicated." 

Spanish  Arms  and  Armour:  Being  an  Historical  and  De- 
scriptive Account  of  the  Royal  Armoury  of  Madrid.  By 
Albert  F.  Calvert.     1907. 

"Dedicated  with  profound  respect  and  esteem  to  her 
Majesty,  Queen  Maria  Cristina  of  Spain,  who  so  worthily 
and  so  long  maintained  those  glorious  traditions  of  Spanish 
greatness,  which  are  symbolized  in  the  treasures  of  the 
Royal  Armoury." 

Illustrated    Turkish    Dictionary.     By    Ali    Sayyid.     1907. 

(Dated  the  year  1324  of  the  Hegira). 

"Abdul-Hamid  Khan  the  Second,  the  Sultan,  son  of  the 
Sultan,  the  victorious  Sultan,  in  grateful  memory  of  the 
31st  happy  anniversary  of  the  accession  of  our  Lord,  Pro- 
tector of  Science  and  Learning,  the  highly-renowned 
Padishah,  which  accession  was  the  beginning  of  Increase 
and  Progress  in  this  state." 

Then  follows  a  poem  in  Turkish  under  the  crescent : 

"O  Padishah,  adorned  with  beautiful  qualities, 
Protector  of  the  high  Khalifate, 
Is  there  an  end  to  your  attributes, 
Can  thy  exaltation  find  a  limit? 
Thy  kindness  and  justice  is  evident. 
It  does  not  need  the  trouble  of  stating. 
Is  it  not  through  your  efforts 

That  the  kingdom  acquired  so  much  happiness  and  power? 
You  have  revived  learning  and  perfection. 


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Your  inclination  to  prosperity  is  well-known. 
You  are  the  shade-spreading  shadow  of  Allah, 
A  glorious  star  that  spreads  light. 
Be  a  tower  of  perfection  and  endure  in  glory, 
Strew  kind  deeds  to  the  horizons  of  thy  people." 

"  The  original  of  this  poem  makes  up  with  a  clever  handling  of 
words  for  the  lack  of  imagination.  Besides,  this  was  the  kind  of 
literature  which  found  favor  under  the  previous  Sultan,  and  very 
few  of  the  public  or  private  writers  dare  to  go  beyond  its  restric- 
tions. .  .  .  The  accepted  manner  of  printing  Mohammedan 
books  precludes  dedications:  Arabic  books  usually  begin  their 
text  on  the  back  of  the  title-page,  and  put  their  table  of  contents 
before  the  title-page.  Turkish  books  followed  that  system,  and 
usually  dropped  even  the  title-page.  Recently,  however,  they 
began  to  be  influenced  by  European  fashions,  and  they  print  books 
with  title-pages.  Still,  dedications  are  very  rare.  It  is  not  such 
an  easy  matter  to  inscribe  a  book  to  the  Sultan."  (Extracts  from 
a  letter  of  M.  H.  Ananikian,  of  Hartford  Theological  Seminary. 
Mr.  Ananikian  found  only  one  other  book  with  a  dedication — and 
that  was  also  a  dictionary.) 

A  Short  History  of  Germany.     By  Ernest  Flagg  Henderson. 
New  York.     1908. 

"Dedicated  by  gracious  permission  to  His  Royal  High- 
ness Prince  Henry  of  Prussia  on  the  occasion  of  his  visit 
to  America." 

In  Three  Legations.    By   Madame  Charles  De  Bunsen. 
1909. 

"To  Queen  Margherita  of  Italy. 

"By  her  gracious  permission  this  book  is  dedicated  to 
H.  M.  Margherita  of  Savoia,  Queen  Mother  of  Italy." 

Fifty  Years  of  New  Japan.    By  Count  Shige*nobu  Okuma. 
1909. 

"Dedicated  by  special  permission  to  his  majesty  King 
Edward  the  Seventh  by  Count  Okuma." 


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The  Art  of  Tatting.     By  Katharine  L.  Hoare,  with  an  In- 
troduction by  H.  M.  the  Queen  of  Roumania.     191  o. 

"  Dedicated  by  gracious  permission  to  Her  Majesty,  th^ 
Queen  of  Roimiania,  whose  love  and  knowledge  of  the  arts 
of  the  thread  have  never  failed  to  encourage  fellow-needle- 
women of  all  classes  and  in  many  countries." 

Das    Fochter    Album     (Annual    for    Girls).      Edited    by 
Berto  Wegner-Zell,  Glogau,  Germany.     1912. 

"To  her  Majesty  The  Empress  and  Queen  Augusta 
Victoria.     Dedicated  in  deepest  respect  by  the  Editress." 


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83 


rv 

Le  Morte  Darthur.    By  Sir  Thomas  Malory.     1485. 

caxton's  dedication  (included  in  his  prologue) 

"Thenne  to  procede  forth  in  thys  sayd  book,  whyche  I 
d3n-ecte  unto  alle  noble  prynces,  lordes  and  ladyes,  gentyhnen 
or  gentylwymen  that  desyre  to  rede  or  here  redde  of  the 
noble  and  joyous  hystorye  of  the  grete  conquerour  and 
excellent  kyng  Kyng  Arthur,  somtyme  kyng  of  thys  noble 
royalme,  thenne  callyd  Brytaygne,  I  wyllyam  Caxton 
symple  persone  present  thys  book  followyng,  whyche  I 
have  enprysed  tenprynte  and  treateth  of  the  noble  actes, 
feates  of  armes,  of  chivalrye,  prowesse,  hardynesse, 
humanyte  love,  curtosye,  and  veray  gentylnesse,  wyth 
many  wonderfull  hystoryes  and  adventures." 

Divina   Commedia.     By    Dante.      Dedication   by  Aldus. 
Venice,  1495. 

"To  the  Worthy  Lady  Victoria  Colonna,  most  illustrious 
Marchioness  of  Pescara  Andrea  di  Asola. 

"Having  newly  reprinted,  oh  most  illustrious  lady,  the 
divine  poet  Dante,  inferior  to  none  of  other  writers,  ancient 
or  modern  that  have  lived  (if  one  regards  with  discerning 
eye  the  height  and  grandeur  of  his  verse  and  the  grade  and 
amount  of  wisdom — the  quantity  and  the  quality  of  what 
is  therein  contained) :  Under  a  name  more  noble  than  that 

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86  Dedications 


of  yours  is,  I  do  not  think  I  could  send  it  forth, — and  it  is 
not  only  my  ancient  subservience  that  has  directed  me 
toward  your  Most  Noble  House,  but  even  more,  the  endur- 
ing fame  of  the  immortals  and  their  divine  beauties  which 
from  day  to  day  keep  increasing  and  advancing  as  they  do 
with  a  handsome  woman. 

"For  truly  I  believe  that  in  no  realm  of  reason,  neither 
in  this  world  of  ours  nor  in  any  other  whatsoever,  is  there 
a  lady  more  beautiful  &  more  compassionate — and  how- 
ever infinitely  this  may  be  true,  her  spiritual  beauties  are 
nothing  less  than  her  physical  ones,  sooner  by  a  great  deal, 
indeed,  do  the  latter  perish, — for  these  have  nothing  that 
are  not  according  to  nature:  but  the  others  have  united  to 
themselves,  art,  no  less  than  nature — and  even  as  precious 
gems  do  they  adorn  and  beautify  thy  blond  head.  So  all 
thy  beauties  &  precious  virtues  make  thee  manifest  like  a 
celestial  ra  nbow  painted  with  a  thousand  colors,  splendid 
and  most  lustrous  to  view. 

"Honesty,  demureness,  discretion,  modesty,  courtesy, 
purity,  grace,  chastity,  magnificence  &  eloquence  as  great 
as  could  be  desired  in  a  noble  lady,  all  are  in  thee  and 
plentifully  are  they  given  thee: 

"Therefore,  because  dowered  with  so  many  and  so  great 
divine  gifts,  this,  my  gift,  do  I  dedicate  and  consecrate  to  your 
honor:  for  whose  sweet  thanks  bowing  I  kiss  thy  hands." 

Vittoria  Colonna,  the  wife  of  the  Marquis  of  Pescara,  was  illus- 
trious as  a  poetess  and  as  a  woman,  and  was  extolled  as  the  most 
eminent  of  her  sex  for  beauty,  virtue,  and  talents  by  such  great 
writers  as  Michael  Angelo  and  Ariosto.  In  Paulo  Veronese's 
Marriage  at  Cana,  the  lady  with  a  toothpick  is  Vittoria  Colonna. 

The  Works  of  Ausias  March.     1562. 

"To  the  Most  Illustrious  Senor  Don  Jimenez  de  Urrea, 
Count  of  Arranda,  Viscount  of  Viota.  Etc.  Jorje  de 
Montemayor. 

"In  the  translation  of  this  book,  no  other  reward  would 


MY  DEAR  LADY  AND  SISTER, 


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moll:  worthy  to  bee  moil;  dear  La^ 
die!^  this  idle  work  of  minerwhfch 
Ifear  (like  the  Spider's  web)  will 
be  thought  fitttr  to  befwept  away, 
than  worn  to  any  (wKer  purpofe^ 
For  my  part,  in  very  truth  if  as  the 
cruel  Fathers  among  th«  Greeks 
were  wont  to  do  to  the  babes  they  would  not  fofter^  I 
could  well  finde  in  my  heart,  to  cafl  om  in  fom  Defart 
of  forgetfulnefs  this  childc,  which  I  am  loth  to  father. 
But  you  defircdmee  to  do  it^aud  yourdefirc,to  my  heart 
is  an  abfolute  commandement.  NoWj  it  is  don  onely  for 
you,  onely  to  you :  if  you  keep  it  to  your  (c\f,  or  to  fuch 
friends,  who  wil  weigh  errors  in  the  balance  of  good  wil, 
1  hope,  for  'the  father's  fake,  it  will  bee  pardoned,  per- 
chance made  much  of,  thougli  in  it  klfk  have  deformi- 
ires.  For  indeed,  for  feverer  eyes  it  is  not,  being  but  a 
trifle,  Orud  that  triflingly  handled. Your  dear  fcif  can  bcft 

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i. 


Reproduced  from  "The  Countess  of  Pembroke's  Arcadia."      Written   by 
Philip  Sidney,  Knight.     Tenth  Edition,  London,  1655 


Sir 


To  Nobility  87 


be  desired  than  to  serve  therewith  Your  Highness.  This 
would  be  the  greatest  delight  that  can  be  imagined.  And 
inasmuch  as,  in  order  to  be  fitting,  the  style  of  the  transla- 
tion should  be  no  less  elevated  than  that  of  the  original, 
and  as  there  is  no  other  genius  like  that  of  Ausias  March 
(who  alone  could  translate  it  worthily) ,  so  there  is  no  other 
intelligence  like  that  of  Your  Highness  to  supply  what  is 
wanting.  Because  the  lack  of  words  does  not  argue  the 
less  will,  nor  could  their  excess  mean  any  greater  desire  in 
the  translator  to  render  such  ser^aces  as  the  author  could 
give,  may  this  first  (book)  be  accepted  from  one  who,  from 
to-day,  will  devote  himself  to  no  other  thing  than  ser\nng 
Your  Most  Illustrious  Highness,  whose  life  and  health  may 
our  Lord  prolong  for  many  years." 
(From  the  Spanish.) 

The  Ephemerides  of  Phialo.     By  Stephen  Gosson.     1586. 

"To  the  right  noble  Gentleman  Master  Philip  Sydney 
Esquier: 

"  It  was  a  custome  right  worshipfull,  among  the  Heathens, 
when  they  had  travayled  the  Seaes,  and  escaped  the  danger, 
to  sacrifice  some  part  of  their  treasure  to  that  God,  which 
they  judged  to  bee  their  deliverer :  and  sith  it  hath  beene  my 
fortune  to  beare  sayle  in  a  storme,  since  my  first  publishing 
the  Schoole  of  Abuse,  and  to  bee  tossed  by  such  as  fome 
without  reason,  and  threaten  me  death  without  a  cause, 
feeling  not  yet  my  finger  ake,  I  can  but  acknowledge  my 
safetie  in  j^our  worship's  patronage,  and  ofi'er  you  Phialo  my 
chief  est  juell,  as  a  manifest  pledge  of  my  thankefull  heart." 

(Quoted  from  Wlieatley's  Dedication  of  Books.) 

Pandosto.     The  Triumph  of  Time.     By  Robert  Greene. 
1588. 

"To  the  Right  Honorable  George  Clifford,  Earle  of 
Cumberland,  Robert  Greene  wisheth  increase  of  honour 
and  vertue. 


Dedications 


"The  Rascians  (right  honorable)  when  by  long  gazing 
against  the  Sunne,  they  became  halfe  blinde,  recover  their 
sightes  by  looking  on  the  blacke  Loade-stone.  Unicornes 
being  glutted  with  brousing  on  roots  of  Licquoris,  sharpen 
their  Stomacks  with  crushing  bitter  grasse. 

"Alexander  vouchsafed  as  well  to  smile  at  the  croked 
picture  of  Vulcan  as  to  wonder  at  the  curious  counterfeite 
of  Venus.''  And  so  the  stream  of  Euphuistic  classical 
allusion  and  "unnatural  natural  history"  flows  on,  until 
we  learn  that  "they  which  feare  the  biting  of  vipers  doe 
carie  in  their  hands  the  plumes  of  a  Phoenix.  .  .  .  And  I 
seeke  to  shroude  this  imperfect  Pamphlet  under  your 
honours  patronage,  doubting  the  dint  of  such  invenomed 
vipers,  as  seeke  with  their  slaunderous  reproches  to  carpe 
at  al.  .  .  .  As  Jupiter  vouchsafed  to  lodge  in  Philemon's 
thatched  cotage;  and  Philip  of  Macedon,  to  take  a  bunche 
of  grapes  of  a  country  pesant:  so  I  hope  your  honour  .  .  . 
will,  when  you  have  cast  a  glance  at  this  toy,  with  Minerva, 
under  your  golden  Target  cover  a  deformed  Owle  .  .  . 

"Your  Lordships  most  duetifully  to  commaunde, 

"Robert  Greene." 

Prosopopoia:    or    Mother    Hubberds  Tale.     By  Edmund 
Spenser.     1591. 

"To  the  right  honourable,  the  Ladie  Compton  and 
Mountegle.  Most  faire  and  vertuous  Ladie;  having  often 
sought  opportunitie  by  some  good  meanes  to  make  knowen 
to  your  Ladiship,  the  humble  affection  and  faithfull  duetie, 
which  I  have  alwaies  professed,  and  am  bound  to  beare  to 
that  House,  from  whence  yee  spring;  I  have  at  length  found 
occasion  to  remember  the  same,  by  making  a  simple  present 
to  you  of  these  my  idle  labours;  which  having  long  sithens 
composed  in  the  raw  conceipt  of  my  youth,  I  lately  amongst 
other  papers  lighted  upon,  and  was  by  others,  which  liked 
the  same,  mooved  to  set  them  foorth:  Simple  is  the  device, 


To  Nobility  89 


and  the  composition  meane,  yet  carrieth  some  delight, 
even  the  rather  because  of  the  simpHcitie  and  meannesse 
thus  personated.  The  same  I  beseech  your  Ladiship  take 
in  good  part,  as  a  pledge  of  that  profession  which  I  have 
made  to  you,  and  keepe  with  you  untill  with  some  other 
more  worthie  labour,  I  do  redeeme  it  out  of  your  hands, 
and  discharge  my  utmost  dutie:  Till  then  wishing  your 
Ladiship  all  increase  of  honour  and  happinesse,  I  humblie 
take  leave. 

"Your  La:  ever  humbly; 

"Ed.  Sp." 

The  Ruines  of  Time.     By  Edmund  Spenser.     1591. 

"  Dedicated  to  the  Right  noble  and  beautiful  Ladie,  the 
La:  Marie,  Countesse  of  Pembroke: — ^Most  Honourable 
and  bountifull  Ladie,  there  bee  long  sithens  deepe  sowed  in 
my  brest,  the  seede  of  most  entire  love  and  humble  affec- 
tion unto  that  most  brave  Knight  your  noble  brother 
deceased;  which  taking  roote  began  in  his  life  time  some 
what  to  bud  forth :  and  to  shew  themselves  to  him,  as  then 
in  the  weakenes  of  their  first  spring.  And  would  in  their 
riper  strength  (had  it  pleased  high  God  till  then  to  drawe 
out  his  dales)  spired  forth  fruit  of  more  perfection.  But 
since  God  hath  disdeigned  the  world  of  that  most  noble 
Spirit,  which  was  the  hope  of  all  learned  men,  and  the 
Patron  of  my  young  Muses ;  togeather  with  him  both  their 
hope  of  anie  further  fruit  was  cut  off:  and  also  the  tender 
delight  of  those  first  blossoms  nipped  and  quite  dead. 
Yet  sithens  my  late  cumming  into  England,  some  frends 
of  mine  .  .  .  knowing  with  howe  straight  bandes  of  duetie 
I  was  tied  to  him,  .  .  .  have  sought  to  revive  them  by 
upbraiding  me:  for  that  I  have  not  shewed  anie  thankefull 
remembrance  towards  him.  .  .  .  whome  chieflie  to  satisfae, 
or  els  to  avoide  that  fowle  blot  of  unthankefullnesse,  I 
have  conceived  this  small  Poeme,  intituled  by  a  generall 


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name  of  the  II\'rJJo  Rutints:  \-et  speciallie  intended  to  the 
renowning  of  that  noble  race,  from  which  both  you  and 
he  sprong.  ...     I  pray  for  \-our  Honoxirable  happinesso: 
and  so  hiimblie  kisse  yotir  handes, 
*"Your  Ladiships  e\-er 

'■  humblie  at  commaund 

"E.  S." 

The  Pngrimage  to  Paradise.     By  Nicholas  Breton.     150::. 

"To  the  Countess  of  Pen-.broke.  R:i;h'  r.oble  Lady. 
whose  rare  vertues  the  wise  no  lesse  honour,  then.  :he 
learned  admire,  and  the  honest  ser\-e:  how  shall  I,  the 
abject  of  f orttme,  unto  t V. ;  ir  presume  to  offer 

so  simple  a  present,  as  .'c  ::::.-  soourse  of  a  poore 
pilgrimes  travaile?  I  know  not  how  but,  with  falling  at 
the  feete  of  your  favovir.  to  cra\-e  pardon  for  my  imperfec- 
tion. Who  hath  redde  of  the  Duchess  of  Urbiaa,  may  sale. 
the  Italians  wrote  wel:  but  who  knows  the  Countess  of 
Pembroobe,  I  thinke  hath  cause  to  write  better :  and  if  she 
had  many  fcdlowers,  ha^-e  not  you  mo  sen^ants?  and  if  they 
were  so  mindfull  of  their  favours,  shall  we  be  forgetfull  of 
our  dueties?  No,  I  am  assured,  that  some  are  not  ignorant 
of  your  worth,  which  will  not  be  idle  in  your  sendee:  that 
will  make  a  title,  but  a  tittle,  where  a  line  shall  put  downe 
a  letter:  and  if  she  have  recei^*ed  her  right  in  remembrance, 
you  must  not  have  wrong  in  being  forgotten:  if  she  were 
the  honour  of  witte  you  are  the  comfort  of  discretion;  if  she 
were  the  favoiirer  of  learning,  you  are  the  maintainer  of 
Arte:  and  if  she  had  the  beauty  of  nature,  you  beautifie 
nature  with  the  blessing  of  the  spirite:  and  in  summe,  if 
she  had  any  true  perfection  to  be  spoken  of,  you  have  many 
mo  truly  to  be  written  of:  which  among  all.  the  least  able 
to  judge  of,  and  of  all  the  very  least  worthy  in  your  favour 
to  write  of.  your  poore  vmworthy  named  poet,  who  by  the 
indiscxerion  of  his  youth,  the  malice  of  envy,  and  the  dis- 
grace of  ingratitude,  had  utteriy  perished  (had  not  the  hand 


To  Nobility  91 


of  your  honour  revived  the  hart  of  humility)  will  not  so 
bury  in  the  grave  of  oblivion  but  that  your  deserved  fame 
shall  so  sounde  in  the  eares  of  honourable  hearts  that,  if 
I  spake  more  then  I  maic,  the  judgment  of  the  wise  and 
the  tongues  of  the  learned,  I  know,  will  no  lesse  cleere  me 
of  flattery,  then  wish,  a  minde  of  more  perfection  to  be  em- 
ployed in  your  service,"  etc.  etc. 

(Quoted  from  Wheatley's  Dedication  of  Books.) 

Lady  Pembroke,  "in  her  Protean  role  of  scholar,  creative  artist, 
religious  enthusiast,  benevolent  patroness,  and  mistress  of  an 
excellently  ordered  household,  seems  to  have  inspired  and  colored 
the  literary  efforts  of  those  whom  she  grouped  about  her."  (Upham, 
French  Influence  in  English  Literature,  41.) 

Venus  and  Adonis.     By  William  Shakespeare.    1593. 

"To  the  Right  Honourable  Henry  Wriothesley,  Earl  of 
Southampton  and  Baron  of  Tichficld. 

"Right  Honourable,  I  know  not  how  I  shall  offend  in 
dedicating  my  unpolished  lines  to  your  Lordship,  nor  how 
the  world  will  censure  me  for  choosing  so  strong  a  proppe 
to  support  so  weake  a  burthen ;  onely  if  your  Honour  seeme 
but  pleased,  I  account  myself  highly  praysed,  and  vow  to 
take  advantage  of  all  idle  houres  till  I  have  honored  you 
with  some  graver  labor.  But  if  the  first  heyre  of  my 
invention  prove  deformed,  I  shall  be  sorry  it  had  so  noble 
a  godfather:  and  never  after  eare  so  barren  a  land,  for  feare 
it  yield  me  still  so  bad  a  harvest.  I  leave  it  to  your  Honour- 
able survey,  and  your  Honor  to  your  heart's  content,  which 
I  wish  may  alwayes  answer  your  owne  wish,  and  the  world's 
hopeful  expectation. 

"Your  Honors  in  all  dutie, 

"William  Shakespeare." 

The  Rape  of  Lucrece.     By  William  Shakespeare.     1594. 

"To  the  Right  Honourable  Henrie  Wriothesley,  Earle 
of  Southampton  and  Baron  of  Tichficld. 


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"The  love  I  dedicate  to  your  Lordship  is  without  end; 
whereof  this  pamphlet,  without  beginning,  is  but  a  super- 
fluous Moiety.  The  warrant  I  have  of  your  Honourable 
disposition,  not  the  worth  of  my  imtutored  lines,  m^akes 
it  assured  of  acceptance.  What  I  have  done  is  yours; 
what  I  have  to  doe  is  yours,  being  part  in  all  I  have,  devoted 
yours.  Were  my  worth  greater,  my  duety  would  shew 
greater;  meanetime,  as  it  is,  it  is  bound  to  your  Lordship, 
to  whom  I  wish  long  life,  still  lengthened  with  all  happinesse. 
Your  Lordship's  in  all  duety. 

"William  Shakespeare." 

Colin  Clouts  Come  Home  Again.     By  Edmund  Spenser. 
1595- 

"To  the  right  worthy  and  noble  knight,  Sir  Walter 
Raleigh,  captaine  of  her  Majesties  guard.  Lord  Wardein 
of  the  Stanneries,  and  Lieutenant  of  the  Countie  of  Corn- 
wall. 

"Sir, 

"That  you  may  see  that  I  am  not  alwaies  ydle  as  yea 
thinke,  though  not  greatly  well  occupied,  nor  altogither 
undutiftdl,  though  not  precisely  officious,  I  make  you 
present  of  this  simple  pastorall,  unworthie  of  your  higher 
conceit  for  the  meanesse  of  the  stile,  but  agreeing  with  the 
truth  in  circimistance  and  matter.  The  which  I  humbly 
beseech  you  to  accept  in  part  of  paiment  of  the  infinite 
debt  in  which  I  acknowledge  my  selfe  bounden  unto  you, 
for  your  singular  favours  and  sundrie  good  turnes  shewed 
to  me  at  my  late  being  in  England,  and  with  your  good 
countenance  protect  against  the  malice  of  evill  mouthes 
which  are  alwaies  wide  open  to  carpe  at  and  misconstrue 
my  simple  meaning. 

' '  I  pray  continually  for  your  happinesse.  From  my  house 
of  Kilcolman,  the  27.  of  December,  1591. 

"Yours  ever  himibly, 

"Ed.  Sp." 


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Fowre  Hymnes,  Made  by  Edm.  Spenser.     1596. 

"To  the  right  honorable  and  most  vertuous  Ladies,  the 
Ladie  Margaret,  Countesse  of  Cumberland,  and  the  Lady 
Marie,  Countesse  of  Warwick. 

"Having  in  the  greener  times  of  my  youth,  composed 
these  former  two  Hymnes  in  the  praise  of  Love  and  beautie, 
and  finding  that  the  same  too  much  pleased  those  of  like 
age  and  disposition,  which  being  too  vehemently  caried  with 
that  kind  of  affection,  do  rather  sucke  out  poyson  to  their 
strong  passion,  then  honey  to  their  honest  delight,  I  was 
moved  by  the  one  of  you  two  most  excellent  Ladies,  to 
call  in  the  same.  But  being  unable  so  to  doe,  by  reason 
that  many  copies  thereof  were  formerly  scattered  abroad, 
I  resolved  at  least  to  amend,  and  by  way  of  retractation  to 
reform  them,  making  in  stead  of  those  two  Hymnes  of 
earthly  or  naturall  love  and  beautie,  two  others  of  heavenly 
and  celestiall.  The  which  I  doe  dedicate  joyntly  unto  you 
two  honorable  sisters,  as  to  the  most  excellent  and  rare 
ornaments  of  all  true  love  and  beautie,  both  in  the  one  and 
the  other  kinde,  humbly  beseeching  you  to  vouchsafe  the 
patronage  of  them,  and  to  accept  this  my  humble  service, 
in  lieu  of  the  great  graces  and  honourable  favours  which 
ye  dayly  shew  unto  me,  untill  such  time  as  I  may  by  better 
mcanes  yeeld  you  some  more  notable  testimonie  of  my 
thankfull  mind  and  dutifull  devotion.  And  even  so  I  pray 
for  your  happinesse. 

"Greenwich  this  first  of  September,  1596. 

"Your  Honors  most  bounden  ever  in  all  humble  service, 

"Ed.  Sp." 

Auspicante  Jehoua.       Marie's  Exercise.      By  Nicholas 
Breton.     1597. 

DEDICATION  TO  THE  COUNTESS  OF  PEMBROKE. 

"Right  Honourable,  my  bounden  service  in  all  duety 
remembred,  I  have  often  read  and  heard,  which  I  verelye 


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beleeve,  that  in  the  nature  of  man  there  is  no  greater  blot 
of  disgrace,  then  the  vile  note  of  ingratitude,  with  which 
wicked  humor  fearing  my  long  forgetfulnesse  of  your  favoure 
may  make  my  heart  in  some  suspition  unhappily  to  bee 
touched,  I  have  presimied  humbly  to  present  unto  the  faire 
eye  of  your  discreete  vertue  a  little  fruite  of  my  late  and 
best  labours;  wherein  your  Ladyship  may  vouchsafe  to 
see  that,  although  I  cannot  as  I  would  finde  meanes  to 
discharge  the  care  of  my  duty,  yet  in  my  best  thoughts  I 
have  not  forgotten  you,  when  in  my  daiely  praiers  unto 
God  I  doe  remember  you:"  etc.  etc. 

(Quoted  from  Wheatley's  Dedication  of  Books.) 

Translation  of  Pliny's  Natural!  Historic.     By  Philemon 
Holland.     1601. 

"To  Sir  Robert  Cecil: 

"The  rare  wisdome,  justice  and  eloquence  which  con- 
curre  in  your  person  like  the  severall  beauties  of  the  rubie, 
the  amethyst,  and  emeraud,  meeting  in  one  faire  opal, 
giveth  a  lovely  lustre  to  your  other  titles  no  lesse  than  if 
the  nine  Muses  and  Apollo  represented  naturally  that  rich 
agat  of  K.  Pyrrhus  were  inserted  therein." 

The  Meditations  and  Vows  of  Joseph  Hall.     1606. 

The  First  Centurie  is  dedicated 
"To 

"The  Right  Worshipfull 
"Sir  Robert  Drurie, 

"Knight,  my  singular  good  Patron: 

"All  increase  of  true  Honour  and  vertue. 
"Sir,  that  I  haue  made  these  my  homely  Aphorismes 
publike,  needs  no  other  reason,  but  that  though  the  world 
is  furnished  with  other  writings,  euen  to  satietie  and  surfeit ; 
yet  of  those  which  reduce  Christianitie  to  practice,  there  is 
(at  least)  scarcitie  enough:  wherein  (yet)  I  must  needes 


To  Nobility  95 


confesse,  I  had  some  eye  to  my  selfe.  For,  hauing  after 
a  sort  vowed  this  austere  course  of  iudgment  and  practice 
to  my  selfe,  I  thought  it  best  to  acquaint  the  world  with  it; 
that  it  may  either  witnesse  my  answerable  proceeding,  or 
checke  me  in  my  straying  there-from.  By  which  meanes, 
so  manie  men  as  I  Hue  amongst,  so  many  monitours  I  shal 
haue,  which  shall  point  mee  to  my  own  rules,  and  vpbraid  me 
with  my  aberrations.  Why  I  haue  Dedicated  them  to 
your  name,  cannot  be  strange  to  any,  that  knowes  you  my 
Patron,  and  mee  your  Pastor.  The  regard  of  which  bond, 
easily  drew  me  on  to  consider,  that  whereas  my  bodie, 
which  was  euer  weake,  began  of  late  to  languish  more; 
it  would  not  be  inexpedient  (at  the  worst)  to  leaue  behind 
me  this  little  monument  of  that  great  respect,  which  I 
deseruedly  beare  you.  And  if  it  shall  please  God  to  re- 
prieue  me,  vntill  a  longer  day;  yet  it  shall  not  repent  mee, 
to  haue  sent  this  vnworthie  scrowle,  to  waite  vpon  you  in 
your  necessarie  absence ;  neither  shall  it  be,  I  hope  bootelesse 
for  you,  to  adioyne  these  my  meane  speculations  vnto 
those  grounds  of  vertue,  you  haue  so  happily  laid,  to  which 
if  they  shall  adde  but  one  scruple,  it  shall  bee  to  mee 
sufficient  ioy,  contentment,  recompense.  From  your 
Halsted.     Decemb.  4. 

"Yovu-  Worships 

"himibly  deuoted, 

"losHall." 

From  Lady  Drury  of  Halsted  in  Suffolk,  Hall  received  a  living^ 
and  he  composed  his  first  book  of  meditations  in  the  early  part  of 
his  residence  there. 

Homer's  Iliad.     By  George  Chapman.     Edition  of  1606  (?). 

"To  Anne,  Queene  of  England  &ca..  Sacred  Fotmtaine 
of  Princes,  Sole  Empresse  of  Beawtie  and  Vertve. 

To  the  Right  Gracious  and  Worthy,  the  duke  of 
Lennox. 


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To  the  most  Grave  and  honored  Temperer  of  Law  and 
Equity,  the  Lord  Chancelor,  &ca. 

To  the  most  Worthie  Earle,  Lord  Treasurer  &  Treasurer 
of  Our  Country,  the  Earle  of  Salisbury  &ca. 

To  the  most  honored  Restorer  of  Ancient  Nobility,  both 
in  bloud  &  vertue,  the  Earle  of  SuflEolke  &ca. 

To  the  most  Noble  and  learned  Earle,  the  Earle  of  North- 
ampton &ca. 

To  the  most  Noble,  my  singular  good  Lord,  the  Earle  of 
Arundell. 

To  the  learned  and  most  noble  Patron  of  learning,  the 
Earle  of  Pembroke  &ca. 

To  the  Right  Gracious  Illustrator  of  Vertue,  and  worthy 
of  the  favour  Royall,  the  Earle  of  Montgomerie. 

To  the  most  learned  and  noble  Conductor  of  the  Warres, 
Arte,  and  the  Muses,  the  Lord  Lisle,  &ca. 

To  the  Great  and  Vertuous,  the  Countesse  of  Mont- 
gomerie. 

To  the  Happy  Starre  Discovered  in  our  Sydneian  Aster- 
isme,  comfort  of  learning.  Sphere  of  all  the  vertues,  the 
Lady  Wrothe. 

To  the  Right  Noble  Patronesse  and  Grace  of  Vertue, 
the  Countesse  of  Bedford. 

To  the  Right  Valorous  and  Vertuous  Lord,  the  Earle  of 
South-Hampton  &ca. 

To  my  exceeding  good  Lord,  the  Earle  of  Sussex,  with 
duty  alwaies  remembered  to  his  honour'd  Countesse. 

To  the  right  Noble  and  Heroicall,  my  singular  good  Lord, 
the  Lord  of  Walden,  &ca. 

To  the  most  truely  noble  and  vertue-gracing  Knight, 
Sir  Thomas  Howard. 

Ever  most  humbly  and  faithfully  devoted  to  you,  and 
all  the  rare  Patrons  of  divine  Homer. 

"Geo.  Chapman." 


(From  Notes  and  Queries,  February  28,  1874.) 


To  Nobility  97 

Shakespeare's    Sonnets.     1609. 

(Dedication   prefixed   by    Thomas   Thorpe,   bookseller  of 
London.] 

TO    .    THE    .    ONLIE    .    BEGETTER    .    OF    . 
THESE    .    INSVING    .    SONNETS    . 
MR.   W.    H.    .    ALL    .    HAPPINESSE    . 
AND    .    THAT    .    ETERNITIE    . 
PROMISED    . 
BY    . 
OVR    .   EVER-LIVING    .    POET    . 
WISHETH    . 
THE    .    WELL-WISHING    . 
ADVENTURER    .    IN    . 
SETTING    . 
FORTH    , 

T.  T. 

No  attempt  to  explain  this  enigmatical  dedication  has  yet  satis- 
fied the  majority  of  Shakespearean  critics.  Perhaps  William 
Herbert,  Earl  of  Pembroke,  is  the  most  plausible  candidate  for 
"W.  H." 

The  English  Husbandman.    By  Gervase  Markham.     1613. 

"To  the  Right  Honourable  and  his  singular  good  Lord,  the 
Lord  Clifton,  Baron  of  Layton:  It  was  a  custome  (right 
honourable  and  my  most  singular  good  Lord),  both  amongst 
the  auntient  Romans,  and  also  amongst  the  wise  Lacede- 
monians, that  every  idle  person  should  give  an  account  of 
the  expence  of  his  howers.  Now  I  that  am  most  idle,  and 
least  imployed  in  your  familie,  present  here  unto  your 
Lordship's  hands  an  account  of  the  expence  of  my  idle 
time,  which  how  well  or  ill,  it  is,  your  noble  wisedome  must 
both  judge  and  correct." 

(Quoted  from  Wheatley's  Dedication  of  Books.) 

Markham  was  very  far  from  idle.  He  has  been  called  the  earliest 
English  hack-writer,  and  his  works  include,  besides  plays  and  poems, 
treatises  on  farriery,  sport,  and  agriculture. 

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98  Dedications 


La  Dorotea.     By  Frey  Lope  Felix  de  Vega  Carpio.     1632. 

"To  His  Most  Illustrious  Excellency,  Don  Caspar 
Alfonso  Perez  de  Guzman,  Count  of  Niebla. 

'I  wrote  La  Dorotea  in  my  younger  years,  having  laid 
aside  my  studies  to  take  up  arms  under  the  flags  of  His 
Most  Excellent  Grace,  the  Duke  of  Medina  Sidonia,  grand- 
father of  Your  Excellency,  and  during  my  absence  the 
manuscript  was  lost,  as  often  happens.  Having  recovered 
it  again  ...  I  decided  to  modify  some  of  its  youthful 
enthusiasm,  and  observe  greater  modesty  in  the  revision. 
Ever  mindful  of  my  love  for  and  my  indebtedness  to  the 
Illustrious  House  of  Guzman,  whose  fault  it  was  the  manu- 
script was  lost,  I  now  submit  it  to  you.  If  its  appearance 
pleases  you,  then  let  it  represent  the  royal  ermine  of  your 
glorious  arms;  if,  on  the  other  hand,  it  looks  old  and  ugly 
to  you,  then  let  it  represent  the  angry  serpent  opposing  the 
illustrious  dagger  on  the  crowned  blazon  of  your  glorious 
crest.  You  bear  the  name  of  Good  by  nature  and  because 
you  are  one  of  a  long  succession  of  noble  Princes.  I  will 
say  no  more  in  flattery  of  your  greatness,  since  the  title  of 
Good  was  bestowed  on  you  by  God  Himself.  May  He 
preserve  Your  Excellency  for  many  years. 

"Madrid— 1632." 

(From  the  Spanish.) 

Geographie  Delineated  Forth  in  Two  Books.     By  Nathaneal 
Carpenter.     (2nd  ed.  Oxford,  1635). 

"To  the  Right  Honourable  William  Earle  of  Pembroke 
Lord  Chamberlaine  to  the  King's  most  excellent  Maiesty, 
Knight  of  the  most  Noble  Order  of  the  Garter  and  Chancel- 
lour  of  the  University  of  Oxford. 

"Right  Honourable:  This  poore  Infant  of  mine,  which  I 
now  offer  to  Your  Honourable  acceptance,  was  consecrated 
Yours  in  the  first  conception:  if  the  hasty  desire  I  had  to 
present  it  makes  it  (as  an  abortive  brat)  seeme  unworthy 


To  Nobility  99 


my  first  wishes,  Your  favourable  Patronage  impute  it  (I 
beseech  You)  not  to  self  e- will  but  duty :  which  would  rather 
show  yourselfe  too  officious,  then  negligent.  What  I  now 
dedicate  rather  to  Your  Honour,  then  mine  owne  ambition, 
I  desire  no  farther  to  bee  accompted  Mine,  then  Your 
generous  approbation:  wishing  it  no  other  fate  then  either 
to  die  with  Your  Dislike  or  live  with  Your  Name  and 
Memory.  The  generall  Acclamation  of  the  Learned  of  this 
Age,  acknowledging  with  all  thankfull  Duty,  as  well  Your 
Love  to  Learning,  as  Zeal  to  Religion,  hath  long  since 
stamped  me  Yours. 

"This  arrogant  Desire  of  mine,  counted  more  on  Your 
Heroicke  Vertues,  then  my  private  ends,  promised  mee 
more  in  Your  Honourable  Esteemation  than  some  others  in 
Your  Acquaintance.  The  expression  of  my  self  e  in  these 
faculties  beside  my  profession  indebted  more  to  Love  then 
Ability  sets  my  Ambition  a  pitch  higher  then  my  Nature. 
But  such  is  the  magnificent  splendour  of  Your  Countenance, 
which  may  Easily  Lend  Your  poore  servant  so  much  light 
as  to  lead  him  out  of  Darknesse :  and  as  the  Sunne  reflect- 
ing on  the  baser  earth,  at  once  both  view  and  guild  his 
imperfections. 

"  My  language  and  formality  I  owe  not  to  the  Court  but 
University:  whereof  I  cannot  but  expect  your  Honour  to 
be  an  impartiall  Umpier,  being  a  most  vigorous  Member  of 
the  one,  and  the  Head  of  the  other  Corporation.  If  these 
fruites  of  my  Labours  purchase  so  much  as  Your  Honour's 
least  Approbation  I  shall  hold  my  wishes  even  accomplished 
in  their  ends  and  desire  only  to  be  thought  so  worthy  in 
Your  Honourable  esteeme  as  to  live  and  dye. 

"  Your  Honour's  in  all  duty  and  service  to  be  commanded 

"Nathaneal  Carpenter." 

Nathaneal  Carpenter,  who  died  about  1628,  was  at  one  time 
Devonshire  Fellow  of  Exeter  College,  Oxford,  and  his  dedication  to 
the  Chancellor  was  therefore  appropriate.  The  first  edition  of  his 
Geographie  appeared  in  1625;  the  book  is  described  as  containing 


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"many  eloquent  passages,  especially  a  digression  in  praise  of  the 
illustrious  natives  of  'our  mountainous  provinces  of  Devon  and 
Cornwall. '  Embodied  in  it  are  some  pages  of  poetry,  in  which  his 
'Mother  Oxford'  recounts  the  advantages  which  he  had  derived 
from  association  with  her,  and  reproaches  him  for  his  partiality 
to  his  native  country."     {Diet.  Nat.  Biog.) 

Comus.     By  John  Milton. 

(Dedication  of    the   anonymous   edition    published   by 
Lawes  in  1637.) 

"To  the  Right  Honourable  John,  Lord  Viscount  Brackley, 
son  and  heir-apparent  to  the  Earl  of  Bridgewater,  etc. 

"  My  Lord, — This  Poem,  which  received  its  first  occasion 
of  birth  from  yourself  and  others  of  your  noble  family, 
and  much  honour  from  your  own  person  in  the  performance, 
now  returns  again  to  make  a  final  dedication  of  itself  to 
you  Although  not  openly  acknowledged  by  the  Author, 
yet  it  is  a  legitimate  offspring,  so  lovely  and  so  much  desired 
that  the  often  copying  of  it  hath  tired  my  pen  to  give  my 
several  friends  satisfaction,  and  brought  me  to  a  necessity 
of  producing  it  to  the  public  view,  and  now  to  offer  it  up 
in  all  rightful  devotion,  to  those  fair  hopes  and  rare  endow- 
ments of  your  much-promising  youth,  which  give  a  full 
assurance  to  all  that  know  you  of  a  future  exce'lence. 
Live,  sweet  Lord,  to  be  the  honour  of  your  name;  and 
receive  this  as  your  own  from  the  hands  of  him  who  hath 
by  many  favours  been  long  obliged  to  your  most  honoured 
Parents,  and,  as  in  this  representation  your  attendant 
Thyrsis,  so  now  in  all  real  expression 

"Your  faithful  and  most  humble  Servant, 

"H.  Lawes." 

Henry  Lawes  was  the  young  musician  who  set  to  music  the  songs 
of  Carew,  Lovelace,  Herrick,  and  other  poets  of  the  17th  century. 
It  was  at  his  request  that  Milton  composed  the  masque  of  Comus, 
to  celebrate  the  inauguration  of  the  Earl  of  Bridgewater  into  his 
duties  as  Lord  President  of  Wales.  The  Earl's  daughter  and  her 
two  young  brothers,  who  were  under  the  instruction  of  Lawes, 


To  Nobility  loi 


took  the  leading  parts  in  the  performance  of  the  masque  at  Ludlow 
Castle  in  1634;  and  Lawes  himself  played  the  role  of  the  Attendant 
Spirit. 

Tentations:  Their  Nature,  Danger,  Cure.  By  Richard 
Capel,  sometime  Fellow  of  Magdalen  College,  Oxford. 
Sixth  edition,  1658. 

"To  the  Right  Worshipful  Sir  William  Guise,  Knight; 
Grace  and  Peace  from  Jesus  Christ. 

"Sir,  Those  that  honour  God,  God  will  honour,  and  so 
will  godly  men:  God  will;  for  he  useth  not  to  be  behind 
with  any,  neither  will  be  with  you :  You  have  done  God  much 
honour  in  setting  up  such  Lights  in  our  Countrey ;  Ministers 
who  both  Do  and  Teach;  They  (as  Christ  hath  it)  shall  be 
called  great  in  the  Kingdome  of  heaven;  and  so  shall  you. 
And  so  will  godly  men  honour  you,  both  Ministers  and 
Others:  Ministers,  because  you  have  built  us  of  our  coat 
some  Synagogues:  others  (who  had  it  not  beene  for  you, 
might  have  sate  in  the  Shadow  of  Darknesse  and  Death) 
for  that  they  now  see  best  by  their  present  mercy,  what  was 
their  former,  and  what  would  have  been  their  future 
Misery." 

It  ends  with :  "And  now  to  helpe  the  weaker  sort  of  Chris- 
tians, I  have  here  done  somewhat  that  way,  which  (what- 
ever it  be)  I  do  here  make  bold  to  publish  it  under  your 
Name  and  Countenance,  to  whom  I  wish  as  Saint  John 
did  to  Gaius  (the  Hoste  of  the  Church  in  his  time) :  That 
above  all  things  you  may  prosper,  and  be  in  health,  even 
as  your  soul  prospereth. 

"Yours  in  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ, 

"Richard  Capel." 

This  book  has  also  a  ten-page  dedication  by  Richard  Sibbs, 
"To  the  Christian  Reader,"  beginning:  "After  the  Angels  left  their 
own  standing,  they  envied  ours,  and  out  of  envy  became  both  by 
office  and  practice  Tempters,  that  they  might  drawe  Man  from  that 
happy  Communion  with  God,  unto  that  cursed  condition  with 


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themselves.  And  successe  in  this  trade,  hath  made  them  both 
skilfull  and  diligent  especially  now,  their  time  being  but  short. 
And  if  neither  the  first  or  second  Adam  could  be  free  from  their 
impudent  Assaults  who  then  may  look  for  exemtion?"  etc. 

The  Indian  Emperor,  or  the  Conquest  of  Mexico.     By 
John  Dryden.     1667. 

"To  the  most  excellent  and  most  illustrious  princess, 
Anne,  Duchess  of  Monmouth  and  Buccleuch,  wife  to  the 
most  illustrious  and  high  born  Prince  James,  Duke  of 
Monmouth. 

"May  it  please  your  Grace,  the  favour  which  heroic 
plays  have  lately  found  upon  our  theatres  has  been  wholly 
derived  to  them  from  the  countenance  and  approbation 
they  have  received  at  court.  .  .  .  Since,  therefore,  to  the 
Court  I  owe  its  fortune  on  the  stage;  so  being  now  more 
publicly  exposed  in  print,  I  humbly  recommend  it  to  your 
Grace's  protection."  Praise  of  her  beauty  and  goodness 
follows. 

"But  as  needful  as  beauty  is,  virtue  and  honour  are  yet 
more:  The  reign  of  it  without  their  support  is  unsafe  and 
short,  like  that  of  tyrants.  Every  sun  which  looks  on 
beauty  wastes  it;  and,  when  it  once  is  decaying,  the  repairs 
of  art  are  of  as  short  continuance,  as  the  after-spring,  when 
the  sun  is  going  further  off.  This,  madam,  is  its  ordinary 
fate;  but  yours,  which  is  accompanied  by  virtue,  is  not 
subject  to  that  common  destiny.  Your  Grace  has  not  only 
a  long  time  of  youth  in  which  to  flourish,  but  you  have 
likewise  found  the  way,  by  an  untainted  preservation  of 
your  honour,  to  make  that  perishable  good  more  lasting: 
And,  if  beauty,  like  wines,  could  be  preserved,  by  being 
mixed  and  embodied  with  others  of  their  own  natures, 
then  your  Grace's  would  be  immortal,  since  no  part  of 
Europe  can  afford  a  parallel  to  your  noble  lord  in  masculine 
beauty,  and  in  goodliness  of  shape.  To  receive  the  blessings 
and  prayers  of  mankind,  you  need  only  to  be  seen  together. 


To  Nobility  103 


We  are  ready  to  conclude,  that  you  are  a  pair  of  angels 
sent  below  to  make  virtue  amiable  in  your  persons,  or  to 
sit  to  poets  when  they  would  pleasantly  instruct  the  age, 
by  drawing  goodness  in  the  most  perfect  and  alluring  shape 
of  Nature." 

To  the  Duchess's  inclination  to  do  good,  Dryden  goes  on,  he  can 

testify  from  his  own  experience.  He  did  owe  much  to  her,  for  it 
was  her  patronage  which  first  established  his  popularity.  "She 
was,"  to  quote  Scott's  note  to  this  preface  in  the  Scott-Saintsbury 
edition,  "  an  accomplished  and  high-spirited  lady,  distinguished  for 
her  unblemished  conduct  in  a  profligate  court." 

Don  Quixote.     Madrid,  1674. 

"To  Sefior  Don  Francisco  Maria  Grillo,  son  of  the  Senor 
Marques  de  Carpeneto. 

"The  works  of  Miguel  de  Cervantes  Saavedra  have 
traversed  the  globe,  winning  general  praise.  Among  all, 
none  have  been  so  celebrated  as  these  first  and  second 
parts  of  the  ingenious  Hidalgo  Don  Quixote  de  la  Mancha, 
by  the  cleverness  of  their  sparkling  wit.  These  books 
have  occupied  the  presses  of  other  kingdoms,  and  from  that 
of  Spain  new  editions  are  issued  almost  every  year.  Never 
have  they  lacked  able  defenders,  in  whose  protection  was 
tempered  the  heat  of  the  critic's  most  severe  censure:  and 
to-day,  in  placing  these  works  under  the  patronage  of 
Your  Highness,  I  am  giving  them  a  protector  who  would 
defend  them  valiantly. 

"There  are  united  in  Your  Highness  all  the  talents 
which,  by  common  consent,  should  adorn  the  defenders  of 
the  works  of  genius.  These  are,  illustrious  blood  to  give 
them  authority,  valor  to  defend  them,  and  a  ready  under- 
standing to  receive  them. 

"  I  have  read  many  dedications  of  books  which  ingenious 
courtiers  have  given  to  the  press  in  the  elegance  of  the  most 
polished  phrases,  and  have  found  that  they  tend  to  the 
formation  of  genealogical  trees  and  are  noticeably  diffuse: 


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but  Your  Highness,  being  the  lawful  son  of  Sefior  Don 
Agabito  Grillo,  Marquis  de  Carpeneto,  recognized  by  the 
royal  and  Most  Serene  Republic  of  Genoa  as  the  most 
ancient,  most  noble,  and  most  exalted  house  of  its  illustri- 
ous name,  the  renown  of  your  most  noble  line  of  ancestors 
is  proclaimed  not  only  by  those  best  versed  in  history,  but 
by  those  least  learned.  From  the  task  of  establishing  your 
renown,  I  am,  therefore,  relieved. 

"The  valor  of  Your  Highness  sufficiently  explains  the 
reverence  with  which  all  regard  you,  giving  you  at  the  same 
time  their  love  and  their  respect. 

"As  many  as  have  communicated  with  Your  Highness 
have  applauded  the  readiness  of  your  understanding,  and 
as  many  as  have  had  intercourse  with  you  have  celebrated 
it.  Especially  has  Your  Highness  always  been  gracious 
in  favoring  the  studious  and  in  aiding  the  learned.  Your 
Highness  is  notably  disposed  to  the  reading  of  those  books 
which  have  brought  to  light  the  geniuses  of  this  Court, 
and  so  I  feel  assured  that  Your  Highness  will  gladly  admit 
this  little  offering,  with  my  compliments,  and  wishes  that 
God  may  preserve  Your  Highness  in  happiness  and  pros- 
perity for  many  years. 

"Kissing  the  hand  of  Your  Highness, 

"Your  most  humble  servant, 

"  Dona  Maria  de  Armenteros." 

The  State  of  Innocence  and  Fall  of  Man.     An  Opera.     By 
John  Dryden.     1677. 

"To  Mary  of  Este,  Duchess  of  York." 

This  flattering  address  reads  in  part:  "Greatness  is, 
indeed,  communicated  to  some  few  of  both  sexes;  but 
beauty  is  confined  to  a  more  narrow  compass.  *  T  is  only 
in  your  sex,  't  is  not  shared  by  many,  and  its  supreme  per- 
fection is  in  you  alone.  And  here,  Madam,  I  am  proud 
that  I  cannot  flatter.  .  .  .  You  are  never  seen  but  you 
are  blest:  And  I  am  sure  you  bless  all  those  who  see  you. 


To  Nobility  105 


We  think  not  the  day  is  long  enough  when  we  behold  you: 
and  you  are  so  much  the  business  of  our  souls,  that  while 
you  are  in  sight,  we  can  neither  look  nor  think  on  any  else. 
There  are  no  eyes  for  other  beauties:  you  only  are  present, 
and  the  rest  of  your  sex  are  but  the  unregarded  parts  that 
fill  your  triumph.  Our  sight  is  so  intent  on  the  object 
of  its  admiration,  that  our  tongues  have  not  leisure  even 
to  praise  you:  for  language  seems  too  low  a  thing  to  express 
your  excellence ;  and  our  souls  are  speaking  so  much  within, 
that  they  despise  all  foreign  conversation.  Thus,  madam, 
in  the  midst  of  crowds  you  reign  in  solitude ;  and  are  adored 
with  the  deepest  veneration,  that  of  silence." 

Dryden  by  no  means  became  silent  at  this  point,  where  the 
quotation  may  very  well  be  cut  short.  Johnson  speaks  of  this 
dedication  as  "an  attempt  to  mingle  earth  and  heaven,  by  praising 
human  excellence  in  the  language  of  religion."  Warton  describes 
it  as  "a  piece  of  the  grossest  and  most  abject  adulation  that  ever 
disgraced  true  genius." 

Devout  Communicant.     Anonymous.     6th    ed.    London, 
1688. 

"To  the  Truly  Noble,  Sir  Kingsmil  Lucy,  Baronet. 

"Sir,  Among  the  mtdtitude  of  Practical  Divine  Treatises, 
are  none  more  numerous  than  on  the  Lord's  Supper,  nor 
more  diversly  handled:  Not  a  few  well-disposed  Persons 
yet  complain  they  are  at  a  loss,  not  so  much  which  to  make 
use  of,  as  that  they  know  not  how  to  form  Directions  into 
apposite  Meditations:  They  sequester  themselves,  they 
sit,  they  seem  to  reflect  as  others;  but  know  not  what  to 
say  in  themselves,  to  their  great  discomfort  and  discourap;e- 
ment.  The  ensuing  Manual  is  so  methodically  digested 
for  their  Assistance,  and  presented  to  your  self,  not  as  one 
that  needs  it,  but  the  Composer  a  better  evidence  of  his 
great  esteem  of  a  Person  so  constant,  so  devout,  a  Com- 
municant, so  eminently  Charitable,  so  rarely  Tempered,  so 
truly  Honourable.      If  it  displease  any,  I  borrow  of  so  many 


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to  discharge  one  great  Debt;  methinks  my  Honesty  in 
owning  it  may  satisfie;  their  allowing  me  also  to  make  the 
best  use  of  theirs  I  were  able;  and  if  this  be  a  bad  one,  't  is 
a  right  hand  error;  I  hope  they  will  not  condemn,  but  pity 
and  pardon  me;  I  was  no  better  advised;  my  ambition 
being  not  to  appear  in  Publick,  but  to  be  publickly  useful; 
and  to  let  the  World  know,  how  much  I  am 

"Sir,  Your  great  Admirer  and  humble  Servant." 

The  Lucubrations  of  Isaac  Bickerstaff  Esq.      By  Richard 
Steele.     1713. 

Volume  I  of  the  Tatler  is  dedicated  by  "Isaac  BickerstaflE"  to 
Mr.  Mainwaring,  but  the  dedication  is  merely  a  short  explanation 
of  the  purpose  and  success  of  the  paper.  Volume  II  is  inscribed  to 
Edward  Wortley  Montagu,  Esq.,  but  it  is,  as  the  opening  sentence 
declares,  rather  a  request  to  read  the  papers  indulgently  than  a  dedi- 
cation. Volume  III  aspires  higher— "To  the  Right  Honourable 
William  Lord  Cowper,  Baron  of  Win gham," — and  adopts  the  usual 
strain  of  dedicatory  eulogy.  Volume  IV  addresses  "The  Right 
Honourable  Charles,  Lord  Halifax,"  in  this  fashion:  "When  I  first 
resolved  upon  doing  myself  this  Honour,  I  could  not  but  indulge  a 
certain  Vanity  in  dating  from  this  little  Covert  [Hampton-Wick, 
April  7,  171 1],  where  I  have  frequently  had  the  honour  of  your 
Lordship's  Company,  and  received  from  you  very  many  Obliga- 
tions. The  elegant  Solitude  of  this  Place,  and  the  greatest  Pleasures 
of  it  I  owe  to  its  being  so  near  those  Beautiful  Manners  wherein 
you  sometimes  reside." 

The  Military  Memoirs  of  Captain  George  Carleton.     By 
Daniel  Defoe  (?).     1728. 

"To  the  Right  Honourable  Spencer,  Lord  Compton, 
Baron  of  Wilmington,  Knight  of  the  Bath,  and  one  of  his 
Majesty's  most  Honourable  Privy  Council. 

"It  was  my  fortune,  my  Lord,  in  my  juvenile  years, 
Musas  cum  marte  commutare;  and  truly  I  have  reason  to 
blush,  when  I  consider  the  small  advantage  I  have  reaped 
from  that  change.  But  lest  it  should  be  imputed  to  my 
want  of  merit,  I  have  wrote  these  Memoirs,  and  leave  the 


To  Nobility  107 


world  to  judge  of  my  deserts.  They  are  not  set  forth 
by  any  fictitious  stories,  not  embellished  with  rhetorical 
flourishes;  plain  truth  is  certainly  most  becoming  the 
character  of  an  old  soldier.  Yet  let  them  be  never  so  meri- 
torious, if  not  protected  by  some  noble  patron,  some  persons 
may  think  them  to  be  of  no  value. 

"To  you,  therefore,  my  Lord,  I  present  them;  to  you, 
who  have  so  eminently  distinguished  yourself,  and  whose 
wisdom  has  been  so  conspicuous  to  the  late  representa- 
tives of  Great  Britain,  that  each  revolving  age  will  speak 
in  your  praise;  and  if  you  vouchsafe  to  be  the  Mecasnas 
of  these  Memoirs,  your  name  will  give  them  sufficient 
sanction. 

"An  old  soldier  I  may  truly  call  myself,  and  my  family 
allows  me  the  title  of  gentleman;  yet  I  have  seen  many 
favourites  of  fortune,  without  being  able  to  discern  why 
they  should  be  so  happy,  and  myself  so  unfortunate.  But 
let  not  that  discourage  your  lordship  from  receiving  these 
my  Memoirs  into  your  patronage ;  for  the  unhappy  cannot 
expect  favour,  but  from  those  who  are  endued  with  generous 
souls. 

"Give  me  leave,  my  Lord,  to  congratulate  this  good  for- 
tune, that  neither  whig  nor  tory  (in  this  complaining  age) 
have  found  fault  with  your  conduct.  Your  family  has 
produced  heroes,  in  defense  of  injured  kings;  and  you, 
when  it  was  necessary,  have  as  nobly  adhered  to  the  cause 
of  liberty. 

"My  Lord,  your  lordship's  most  obedient, 

"And  most  devoted  humble  servant, 

"G.  Carieton." 

The  Memoirs  were  long  supposed  to  have  been  written  by  the 
old  soldier  who  speaks  with  such  disarming  simplicity  in  the  dedi- 
cation. But  it  is  now  almost  certainly  established  that  their 
author  was  Daniel  Defoe,  who  did  not  consider  "plain  truth" 
most  becoming  to  his  own  character.  He  has  made  the  dedication 
very  effectively  serve  his  masquerading  purpose. 


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An  Essay  on  Design.     By  John  Gw3rnn.     1749. 

"To  His  Grace  the  Duke  of  Rutland. 
"My  Lord, 

"Though  this  address,  made  without  Leave  or  Applica- 
tion, is  perfectly  unmixed  with  mercenary  Views,  yet  Your 
Grace  will  give  me  leave  to  own  that  it  is  not  altogether 
disinterested.  I  think  myself  interested  in  the  Honour 
and  Advantage  of  my  country,  and  consequently  in  the 
Arts  which  I  have  endeavoured  to  recommend.  I  address 
your  Grace  as  a  Lover  and  Judge  of  those  Arts,  and  as  a 
Nobleman  whom  Fame  has  long  since  pointed  out  for  one 
of  their  most  distinguished  Patrons.  What  is  universally 
said,  I  may  be  allowed  to  repeat.  And  in  respect  to  that 
Delicacy,  which  is  always  attendant  on  good  sense,  true 
Taste,  generous  Education,  and  the  most  polite  Converse, 
I  will  not  presimie  to  say  more.  I  am, 
"  May  it  please  your  Grace, 

"Your  Grace's  most  humble 

"And  most  obedient  Servant, 

"J.  Gwynn." 

Observations  and  Inquiries  Relating  to  Various  Parts  of 
Ancient  History.     By  Jacob  Bryant.     Cambridge,  1767. 

"To  His  Grace  the  Duke  of  Marlborough. 

"My  Lord, 

"I  would  not  presume  to  introduce  the  ensuing  Trea- 
tises to  Your  Grace's  notice,  were  I  not  well  acquainted  with 
Your  love  of  truth,  and  Your  zeal  to  obtain  it  through  the 
most  severe  investigation.  A  mind  so  devoted  is  the  best 
judge  of  evidence  in  every  degree,  being  influenced  by  a 
more  exquisite  taste  and  discernment,  and  enriched  with 
superiour  knowledge.  It  is  from  this  principle,  my  Lord, 
that  You  have  been  rendered  so  happy  in  every  rational 
attainment,  and  led  to  an  union  with  virtues  the  most 
similar  to  Your  own.     Hence  it  is,  that  I  am  emboldened 


To  Nobility  109 


to  lay  before  Your  Grace  the  following  Dissertations,  which 
contain  matter  of  dark  and  remote  enquiry;  and  are  the 
fruits  of  that  ease  and  retirement,  with  which,  under  Provi- 
dence, I  am  blest  by  Your  benevolence  and  favour.  These 
are  the  only  returns  I  can  make  for  the  many  signal  instances 
of  Your  goodness.  Beyond  these  I  have  nothing  left,  but 
prayers  and  wishes  for  You  long  and  intimately  to  enioy 
that  happiness,  which,  like  a  salutary  emanation,  You  so 
widely  diffuse  to  others.  I  shall  not  attempt  to  make  any 
display  of  Your  high  endowments,  and  hereditary  great 
qualities.  May  it  be  the  peculiar  happiness  of  these  times 
never  to  stand  in  need  of  such  approved  worth  and  excel- 
lence. Let  the  calm,  with  which  we  are  flattered,  long 
continue ;  that  nothing  may  interfere  with  Your  noble  and 
ingenuous  pursuits,  nor  ruin  the  happy  tendency  of  Your 
studies;  much  less  in  any  degree  interrupt  Your  domestic 
felicity. 

"Permit  me  to  subscribe  myself  with  the  highest  sense 
of  duty  and  esteem, 
"  My  Lord, 

"Your  Grace's 

"  Most  faithful 

"And  most  obliged 
"Humble  servant, 

"Jacob  Bryant." 

The  Life  of  Edward,  Lord  Herbert  of  Cherbury:  Written 
by  Himself.     Edited  by  Horace  Walpole.     1771. 

"To  the  most  noble  Henry  Arthur  Herbert,  Earl  of  Powis, 
Viscount  Ludlow,  Lord  Herbert  of  Cherbury,  Baron  Powis 
and  Ludlow,  and  Treasurer  of  his  Majesty's  household. 

"My  Lord, 

"Permit  me  to  offer  to  your  Lordship,  in  this  more 
durable  manner,  the  very  valuable  present  I  received  from 
your  hands.  To  your  Lordship  your  great  ancestor  owes 
his  revival;  and  suffer  me,  my  Lord,  to  tell  the  world  what 


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does  you  so  much  honour,  you  have  given  him  and  me  leave 
to  speak  the  truth;  an  indulgence  which,  I  am  sorry  to  say, 
few  descendants  of  heroes  have  minds  noble  enough  to  allow, 

"Hitherto,  Lord  Herbert  has  been  little  known  as  an 
Author.  I  much  mistake,  if  hereafter  he  is  not  considered 
as  one  of  the  most  extraordinary  characters  which  this 
country  has  produced.  Men  of  the  proudest  blood  shall 
not  blush  to  distinguish  themselves  in  letters  as  well  as 
arms,  when  they  learn  what  excellence  Lord  Herbert 
attained  in  both.  Your  Lordship's  lineage  at  least  will 
have  a  pattern  before  their  eyes  to  excite  their  emulation; 
and  while  they  admire  the  piety  with  which  you  have  done 
justice  to  your  common  Ancestor,  they  cannot  be  forgetful! 
of  the  obligation  they  will  have  to  your  Lordship's  memory 
for  transmitting  to  them  this  record  of  his  glory. 

"I  have  the  honour  to  be,  my  Lord,  Your  Lordship's 
most  obedient  and  most  obliged  servant 

"Horace  Walpole." 

Walpole  wrote  to  George  Montagu  (July  26,  1764)  that  he  and 
the  poet  Gray  had  read  Lord  Herbert's  Life  aloud  to  amuse  Lady 
Waldegrave,  and  that  they  "could  not  get  on  for  laughing  and 
screaming."  Walpole  had  found  the  MS.  at  Lady  Hertford's,  to 
whom  Lady  Powis  had  lent  it.  Lord  Powis  at  first  refused  to  allow 
it  to  be  printed,  and  Walpole  thereupon  wrote  the  above  flattering 
dedication — "which  I  knew  he  would  swallow;  he  did,  and  gave 
up  his  ancestor." 

Poems.     By  Phyllis  Wheatley.     1773. 

"To  the  Right  Honourable  the  Countess  of  Huntington. 
The  following  poems  are  most  respectfully  Inscribed  by 
her  much  obliged,  very  himible  and  devoted  Servant. 

"Phyllis  Wheatley. 
"Boston,  June  12th,  1773." 

"Phyllis  Wheatley  was  an  African  slave  girl  who  wrote  the  poems 
when  she  was  only  seventeen — having  been  brought  as  a  little 
girl  to  Boston. — She  had  no  schooling,  it  seems,  and  must  have 
taken  learning  in  at  the  pores." 


To  Nobility  iii 

Reliques  of  Ancient  English  Poetry.     By  Bishop  Percy. 
4th  ed.,  1794. 

"To  Elizabeth,  Late  Duchess  and  Countess  of  Northum- 
berland, in  her  own  right  Baroness  Percy,  etc.  etc.  etc., 
who,  being  sole  heiress  to  many  great  families  of  our  ancient 
nobility,  employed  the  princely  fortune,  and  sustained  the 
illustrious  honours,  which  she  derived  from  them,  through 
her  whole  life  with  the  greatest  dignity,  generosity,  and 
spirit;  and  who  for  her  many  public  and  private  virtues 
will  ever  be  remembered  as  one  of  the  first  characters  of 
her  time,  this  little  work  was  originally  dedicated:  and,  as 
it  sometimes  afforded  her  amusement,  and  was  highly  dis- 
tinguished by  her  indulgent  approbation,  it  is  now,  with 
the  utmost  regard,  respect,  and  gratitude,  consecrated  to 
her  beloved  and  honoured  memory." 

The  first  edition,  with  a  long  dedication  to  the  Duchess,  appeared 
in  1765.     Percy  was  then  chaplain  to  the  Duke  of  Northumberland. 

Don  Quixote.     Madrid,  1797. 

"To  His  Excellency,  the  Prince  of  La  Paz. 

"Sir: 

"The  zeal  of  Your  Excellency  for  the  renown  of  the 
establishments  under  your  care  will  cause  you  to  look  with 
approbation  upon  this  typographic  attempt,  undertaken 
for  the  ptirpose  of  manifesting  the  beauty  and  taste  which 
can  be  given  to  the  voltunes  printed  in  the  ofRces  of  the 
Royal  Press.  Don  Quixote,  being  the  best  book  in  our 
language  and  one  of  the  most  beautiful  in  the  world,  was 
chosen  for  this.  It  merited  the  preference  and  perhaps 
attracted  to  the  enterprise  a  part  of  the  satisfaction  which  it 
is  known  to  win  from  all  with  its  incomparable  merit. 
The  editor,  who  has  the  honor  to  count  himself  among 
the  employ^  of  the  Royal  Printing  Office,  and  consequently 
of  Your  Excellency,  hopes  that  the  small  civility  of  dedicat- 
ing this  edition  to  you  will  be  accepted  by  Your  Excellency 


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with  that  benignant  indulgence  which  you  are  accustomed 
to  dispense  to  good  wishes. 

"Most  Excellent  Sefior, 

"At  the  feet  of  Your  Excellency, 

"Andres  Ponce  de  Quinones." 

Hellas,  A  Lyrical  Drama.     By  Percy  B.  Shelley.     182 1. 

"To  His  Excellency  Prince  Alexander  Mavrocordato, 
Late  Secretary  for  foreign  affairs  to  the  Hospodar  of 
Wallachia,  The  Drama  of  Hellas  is  inscribed  as  an  imperfect 
token  of  the  admiration,  sympathy,  and  friendship  of 

"The  Author. 

"Pisa,  November  ist,  1821." 

Extract  from  Mrs.  Shelley's  note  on  Hellas:  "While  the  fate  of  the 
progress  of  the  Austrian  armies  then  invading  Naples  was  yet  in 
suspense,  the  news  of  another  revolution  filled  him  [Shelley]  with 
exultation.  We  had  formed  the  acquaintance  at  Pisa  of  several 
Constantinopolitan  Greeks,  of  the  family  of  Prince  Caradja, 
formerly  Hospodar  of  Wallachia,  who,  hearing  that  the  bow-string, 
the  accustomed  finale  of  his  viceroyalty,  was  on  the  road  to  him, 
escaped  with  his  treasures,  and  took  up  his  abode  in  Tuscany. 
Among  these  was  the  gentleman  to  whom  the  drama  of  Hellas  is 
dedicated.  Prince  Mavrocordato  was  warmed  by  those  aspirations 
for  the  independence  of  his  country,  which  filled  the  hearts  of  many 
of  his  countrymen.  He  often  intimated  the  possibility  of  an  insur- 
rection in  Greece;  but  we  had  no  idea  of  its  being  so  near  at  hand, 
when,  on  the  first  of  April,  1 821,  he  called  on  Shelley;  bringing  the 
proclamation  of  his  cousin,  Prince  Ipsilanti,  and,  radiant  with  exul- 
tation and  delight,  declared  that  henceforth  Greece  would  be  free." 

Jerusalem  Delivered:  Translated  into  English  Spenserian 
Verse  from  the  Italian  of  Torquato  Tasso.  By  Jeremiah 
H.  WifEen.     2nd  ed.,  1826. 

TO  GEORGIANA,    DUCHESS  OF  BEDFORD. 
I 

"Years  have  flown  o'er  since  first  my  soul  aspired 
In  song  the  sacred  Missal  to  repeat. 
Which  sainted  Tasso  writ  with  pen  inspired — 
Told  is  my  rosary,  and  the  task  complete : 


To  Nobility  113 


And  now,  'twixt  hope  and  fear,  with  toil  untired, 

I  cast  the  ambrosial  relique  at  thy  feet; 
Not  without  faith  that  in  thy  goodness  thou 
Wilt  deign  one  smile  to  my  accomplish'd  vow. 

II 

"Not  in  dim  dungeons  to  the  clank  of  chains, 

Like  sad  Torquato's,  have  the  hours  been  spent 

Given  to  the  song,  but  in  bright  halls  where  reigns 
XJncumbered  Freedom, — with  a  mind  unbent 

By  walks  in  woods,  green  dells,  and  pastoral  plains, 
To  sound,  far-off,  of  village  merriment; 

Albeit,  perchance,  some  springs  whence  Tasso  drew 

His  sweetest  tones,  have  touched  my  spirit  too. 

Ill 

"0  that,  as  happier  constellations  bless 

My  studious  life,  my  verses  too  could  boast 

Some  happier  graces,  (should  I  wish  for  less?) 
T'  atone  for  charms  unseized  and  splendors  lost!. 

No!  the  grand  rainbow  mocks  the  child's  caress, 
Who  can  but  sorrow,  as  his  fancy  's  cross'd, 

That  e'er  so  beautiful  a  thing  should  rise, 

T'  elude  his  grasp,  yet  so  enchant  his  eyes. 

IV 

"On  the  majestic  Sorrentine  I  gazed 

With  a  familiar  joy — methought  he  smiled; 

But  now  the  vigil  's  past,  I  stand  amazed 
At  the  conceit,  and  sorrow  like  the  child. 

What  second  hand  can  paint  the  scenes  that  blazed 
In  Tasso's  brain,  with  tints  as  sweet  and  wild? 

As  much  the  shapes  that  on  his  canvass  glow, 

Their  birth  to  Phrensy  as  to  Genius  owe. 


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V 

"Yet  may  I  hope  o'er  generous  minds  to  cast 
A  faint  reflection  of  his  matchless  skill, 

For  here  his  own  Sophronia,  unaghast, 
Flings  firm  defiance  to  her  tyrant  still, — 

Clorinda  bleeds, — lovelorn  Erminia  fast 

Hies  through  the  forest  at  her  steed's  wild  will; 

And  in  these  pages  still  Armida's  charms 

Strike  the  rapt  heart,  and  wake  a  world  to  arms. 

VI 

"Thus  then,  O  Lady,  with  thy  name  I  grace 

The  glorious  fable;  fitly,  since  to  thee 
And  thine  the  thanks  are  due,  that  in  the  face 

Of  time  and  toil,  the  Poets'  devotee 
Has  raised  the  enchanted  structure  on  its  base, 

And  to  thy  hand  now  yields  th'  unclosing  key, — 
Blest,  if  in  one  bright  intellect  like  thine. 
He  wins  regard,  and  builds  himself  a  shrine!" 

Hjynms.    By  Frederick  William  Faber.     1849. 

"To  the  Earl  of  Arundel  and  Surrey,  these  hymns  are 
affectionately  inscribed,  with  the  belief  that  to  him  it  will 
be  the  truest  token  of  gratitude  for  so  many  kindnesses 
thus  to  connect  his  honoured  name  with  our  dear  St.  Philip." 

Faber  was  one  of  the  disciples  of  Newman  in  the  Oxford  Move- 
ment. In  1845,  he  became  a  Catholic,  and  three  years  later  he 
joined  the  Oratory  of  St.  Philip  Neri,  which  had  just  been  intro- 
duced into  England,  and  of  which  Father  Newman  was  the  Su- 
perior. Faber  became  the  head  of  the  London  Oratory.  This 
explains  the  allusion  to  St.  Philip  in  the  dedication. 

Henry  Esmond.   By  William  Makepeace  Thackeray.    1852. 

"To  the  Right  Honourable  William  Bingham,  Lord 
Ashburton: 


To  Nobility  115 


"My  dear  Lord, 

"The  writer  of  a  book  which  copies  the  manners  and 
language  of  Queen  Anne's  time,  must  not  omit  the  Dedica- 
tion to  the  Patron ;  and  I  ask  leave  to  inscribe  these  volumes 
to  your  Lordship  for  the  sake  of  the  great  kindness  and 
friendship  which  I  owe  to  you  and  yours. 

"My  volumes  will  reach  you  when  the  Author  is  on  his 

voyage  to  a  coimtry  where  your  name  is  as  well  known  as 

here.     Wherever  I  am,  I  shall  gratefully  regard  you,  and 

shall  not  be  less  welcomed  in  America  because  I  am, 

"Your  obliged  friend  and  servant, 

"W.  M.  Thackeray. 
"London,  October  18,  1852." 

A  Natural  History  of  the  Nests  and  Eggs  of  British  Birds. 
By  Francis  O.  Morris.     1853-6. 

"To  the  Right  Hon.  The  Earl  of  Carlisle,  these  volimies 
in  which  a  new  invention  has  been  appKed  to  the  depart- 
ment of  art  under  which  they  are  illustrated,  are  with  his 
lordship's  permission  most  respectfully  dedicated  by  his 
obliged  and  obedient  servant,  the  author." 

The  History  of  the  Violin  and  Other  Instruments  Played  on 
with  the  Bow.  By  William  Sandys  and  Simon  Andrew 
Forster.     1864. 

"Dedicated  (with  permission)  to  Lord  Gerald  Fitz- 
Geraid,  and  the  nobility  and  gentry  of  the  society  of  wan- 
dering minstrels." 

Balaustion's  Adventure,  Including  a  Transcript  from 
Euripides.     By  Robert  Browning.     1871. 

"To  the  Countess  Cowper. 

"If  I  mention  the  simple  truth,  that  this  poem  absolutely 
owes  its  existence  to  you, — who  not  only  suggested  but  im- 
posed on  me  as  a  task,  what  has  proved  the  most  delightful 


ii6  Dedications 


of  May-month  amusements, — I  shall  seem  honest,  indeed, 
but  hardly  prudent;  for,  how  good  and  beautiful  ought  such 
a  poem  to  be! 

"  Euripides  might  fear  little;  but  I,  also,  have  an  interest 
in  the  performance;  and  what  wonder  if  I  beg  you  to  suffer 
that  it  make,  in  another  and  far  easier  sense,  its  nearest 
possible  approach  to  those  Greek  qualities  of  goodness 
and  beauty,  by  laying  itself  gratefully  at  your  feet? 

"R.  B. 

"London,  July  23,  1871." 

The  Master  of  BallantraB.     By  Robert  Louis  Stevenson. 
1889. 

"To  Sir  Percy  Florence  and  Lady  Shelley: 
"Here  is  a  tale  which  extends  over  many  years  and  travels 
into  many  countries.  By  a  peculiar  fitness  of  circtimstance, 
the  writer  began,  continued  it,  and  concluded  it  among 
distant  and  diverse  scenes.  Above  all,  he  was  much  upon 
the  sea.  ...  It  is  my  hope  that  these  surroundings  of  its 
manufacture  may  to  some  degree  find  favour  for  my  story 
with  sea-farers  and  sea-lovers  like  yourselves.  And  at 
least  here  is  a  dedication  from  a  great  way  off  written  by 
the  loud  shores  of  a  subtropical  island  near  upon  ten  thou- 
sand miles  from  Boscombe  Chine  and  manor;  scenes  which 
rise  before  me  as  I  write,  along  with  the  faces  and  voices 
of  my  friends.  Well,  I  am  for  the  sea  once  more:  no  doubt 
Sir  Percy  also.     Let  us  make  the  signal  B.  R.  D.! 

"R.  L.  S. 
"Waikiki,  May  17,  1889." 

This,  like  the  dedications  of  several  other  works  of  Stevenson, 
is  very  much  like  a  letter,  and  most  of  them  are  too  long  to  be 
included  in  this  volume. 

Clews  to  Holy  Writ;  or,  The  Chronological  Scripture  Cycle. 
By  Mary  Louisa  Georgina  Petrie.     1893. 

"To  the  Duchess  of  Bedford,  one  of  the  first  outside  our 
college  by  post  to  adopt  the  C.  S.  C.  scheme,  and  the  first 


To  Nobility  117 


to  suggest  its  issue  in  this  form  for  a  wider  public,  I  dedicate 
my  little  book." 

The  Merry  Men  and  Other  Tales  and  Fables.    By  Robert 
Louis  Stevenson.     1895. 

"My  dear  Lady  Taylor: 

"To  your  name,  if  I  wrote  on  brass,  I  could  add  nothing; 
it  has  been  already  written  higher  than  I  could  dream  to 
reach,  by  a  strong  and  a  dear  hand,  and  if  I  now  dedicate  to 
you  these  tales,  it  is  not  as  the  writer  who  brings  you  his 
work,  but  as  the  friend  who  wotdd  remind  you  of  his 
affection. 

"Robert  Louis  Stevenson. 

"Skerryvore,  Bournemouth." 

An  Historical  Greek  Grammar.    By  A.  N.  Jannaris,  Ph.D. 
1897. 

"To  the  most  honourable  the  Marquess  of  Bute,  K.T., 
the  generous  patron  and  pioneer  of  Greek  culture  and 
scholarship,  this  work  is  inscribed  by  the  author." 

Japanese  Girls  and  Women.     By  Alice  Mabel  Bacon.  1902. 

"To  Stematz,  the  Countess  Oyama,  in  the  name  of  our 
girlhood's  friendship,  unchanged  and  unshaken  by  the 
changes  and  separations  of  our  maturer  years,  this  volume 
is  affectionately  dedicated." 


V 
Zo  Dignitartes  of  Cburcb  ant)  State 


119 


V 

XIo  Dignitaries  ot  Cburcb  ant)  State 

New  Testament  in  Greek.  Edited  by  Erasmus.   Basle,  1516. 

DEDICATED  TO  LEO  X. 

"Possessing  so  many  distinguished  adornments,  Oh  Leo 
X,  Pontifex  Maximus,  because  of  which  you  shine  and  are 
esteemed  everywhere,  you  have  approached  the  culmina- 
tion of  pontifical  dignity,  aided  on  the  one  hand  by  the  count- 
less ornaments  of  the  House  of  Medici,  famous  no  less 
because  of  the  memorials  of  wise  men  than  because  of  the 
honored  personalities  of  thy  ancestors;  aided  on  the  other 
hand  by  the  innumerable  talents  of  body  and  mind  which 
the  benignity  of  the  Divine  Will  has  bestowed  in  part  and 
which  your  own  industry  has  helped  you  acquire.  No  other 
thing  has  made  thee  more  truly  or  magnificently  renowned 
than  this  honor — beyond  which  there  is  none  greater 
among  men  that  man  can  attain — that  you  have  imparted 
an  equal  integrity  of  character,  a  life  not  only  above  every- 
thing base,  but  a  reputation  never  sullied  by  any  stain  of 
ugly  rumor.  Everywhere  this  is  a  most  difficult  achieve- 
ment, but  it  is  particularly  so  in  Rome,  of  which  city  the 
license  is  so  great  (let  me  not  speak  heedlessly)  that  integrity 
is  scarcely  safe  from  reproach  and  those  who  are  most  free 
from  faults  are  not  free  from  accusation.  For  this  reason 
it  has  come  about  that  not  a  little  more  of  true  praise  has 
redounded  to  Leo,  because  he  deserved  the  highest  pontifical 
office  rather  than  because  he  has  accepted  it. 


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"Already  in  the  actual  performance  of  thy  most  beautiful 
and  also  most  sacred  office,  by  many  splendid  deeds  and 
distinguished  virtues  dost  thou  in  turn  honor  the  esteemed 
honor.  But  there  is  nothing  that  commends  thee  better 
to  those  above  as  well  as  to  those  on  earth  than  that  great 
zeal  and  equal  wisdom  with  which  thou  dost  act  and  plan 
most  ably  that  Christian  piety  from  day  to  day  may  be 
exalted  to  better  things.  For  hitherto,  through  fault  of 
the  times  and  especially  of  the  wars,  it  has  weakened,  and 
it  has  grown  faint  just  as  it  is  the  nature  of  all  things  htmian 
to  do,  so  that  neither  by  hands  or  by  feet  may  we  resist 
sliding  back  somewhat  and,  as  it  were,  degenerating. 

"But  while  it  is  sometimes  more  difficult,  so  it  is  more 
beautiful  to  revive  than  to  bury.  Therefore  when  you 
promptly  seize  the  opportunity  of  restoring  religion  after 
the  struggles  of  war  have  ceased — which  it  was  in  you  to 
do — it  is  indeed  proper  that  all  Christians  of  all  lands  and 
nations,  each  according  to  his  ability,  should  assist  the  most 
blessed  of  all  tasks  and  the  most  beneficial  of  undertakings. 

"From  all  directions  now  do  I  behold  men  of  excellent 
genius  and  great  and  opulent  kings  sending  marble,  ivory, 
gold  and  gems  to  our  Solomon  for  the  structure  of  the  temple. 
We  are  eager  to  send  the  poor  possessions  of  prince  or 
peasant,  such  as  they  are,  or  even  the  skins  of  goats  lest  we 
collect  nothing:  some  small  present  that  pertains  to  our 
station  in  life  but  by  which  (unless  the  spirit  fails  me)  there 
wll  be  something  added  to  Christ's  temple — if  not  much 
splendor,  indeed,  some  utility;  particularly  if  it  is  to  be 
approved  by  the  reckoning  of  him  on  whose  approval  or 
refusal  alone,  the  whole  world  of  humanity  depends.  .  .  . 

"That  the  utility  of  this  work  of  ours  might  expand  more 
widely,  it  seemed  best  to  take  advantage  for  the  public 
good  of  the  world,  of  the  allurement  of  thy  sacred  name, 
especially  since  the  aim  of  the  work  suggests  it.  It  is 
beautifxilly  fitting  that  this  Christian  Philosophy  should  be 
diverted  to  all  mortals  who   hold   Christianity  as   their 


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refuge,  and  that  through  this  book  the  celestial  doctrines 
should  proceed  to  all  men,  under  the  auspices  of  him  through 
whom  Christ  wished  us  to  accept  whatever  draws  men 
heavenward  from  earth.  How  could  this  book  go  forth 
more  happily  and  more  auspiciously  into  the  hands  of 
men  than  thus  consecrated.  So  do  we  see  more  majesty 
and  veneration  accrue  to  altars  and  temples  when  they  are 
dedicated  to  the  almighty  gods. 

"Though  new,  already  this  may  somehow  be  contribut- 
ing to  the  public  utility.  For  on  this  occasion  the  modesty 
and  good  nature  of  Leo  have  shown  him  to  be  the  most 
great,  no  less  than  on  those  occasions  when  he  excels  all 
the  greatest  by  a  big  interval. 

"Finally,  if  it  is  proper  to  mention  in  the  same  breath 
with  so  great  a  chief,  something  from  a  play  of  Thrasos: 
'However  mean  this  labor  of  mine  seems  to  the  general 
view,  nevertheless  I  believe  the  attentive  reader  will  find 
something  more  when  he  has  finished  it  than  the  work 
seems  to  contain  at  first  glance.'  But  that  I  may  not 
offend  a  well-disposed  public  by  delaying  Your  Highness 
with  too  long  an  address,  who  must  be  taking  counsel  for 
all  lands  with  perpetual  solicitude,  I  may  settle  the  rest 
with  the  common  reader.  But  before  closing,  I  beg  of 
Him,  by  Whose  Providence  Leo  X  has  attained  to  the 
highest  office  of  mortals,  that  He  may  will  this  same  one  a 
long  life  among  us  and  very  great  happiness. 

"At  Basle,  in  the  year  1516  of  restored  health,  month  of 
February." 

On  the  Liberty  of  a  Christian  Man.     By  Martin   Luther. 
1520. 

(Extracts  from  the  dedication  to  Leo  X,  translated  in  The 
Life  and  Letters  of  Martin  Luther,  by  Preserved  Smith,  91.) 

"Of  your  person,  excellent  Leo,  I  have  heard  only  what  is 
honourable  and  good,  .  . .  but  of  the  Roman  See,  as  you  and 


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all  men  must  know,  it  is  more  scandalous  and  shameful  than 
any  Sodom  or  Babylon,  and,  as  far  as  I  can  see,  its  wicked- 
ness is  beyond  all  counsel  and  help,  having  become  desper- 
ate and  abysmal.  It  made  me  sick  at  heart  to  see  that 
under  your  name  and  that  of  the  Roman  Church,  the  poor 
people  in  all  the  world  are  cheated  and  injured,  against 
which  thing  I  have  set  myself  and  will  set  myself  as  long 
as  I  have  life,  not  that  I  hope  to  reform  that  horrible  Roman 
Sodom,  but  that  I  know  I  am  debtor  and  servant  of  all 
Christians,  and  that  it  is  my  duty  to  counsel  and  warn 
them.  .  .  . 

"Finally,  that  I  come  not  before  your  Holiness  without 
a  gift,  I  offer  you  th's  little  treatise,  dedicated  to  you  as  an 
augury  of  peace  and  good  hope;  by  this  book  you  may  see 
how  fruitfully  I  might  employ  my  time,  as  I  should  prefer 
to,  if  only  those  imp'ous  flatterers  of  yours  would  let  me. 
It  is  a  little  book  as  respects  size,  but  if  I  mistake  not,  the 
whole  sum  of  a  Christian  life  is  set  down  therein,  in  respect 
to  contents.  I  am  poor  and  have  nothing  else  to  send  you, 
nor  do  you  stand  in  need  of  any  but  my  spiritual  gifts." 

"The  occasion  for  writing  this  work  was  an  earnest  request  of 
the  officious  peacemaker,  Charles  von  Miltitz,  for  Luther  to  send 
a  letter  to  the  Pope  saying  that  'he  had  never  meant  to  twit  him 
personally.'  The  reformer  complied."  (Preserved  Smith's  Lwi/jer, 
91.)  Another  treatise  written  by  Luther  in  this  same  year,  To 
the  Christian  Nobility  of  the  German  Nation  on  the  Improvement  of 
the  Christian  Estate,  was  dedicated  to  his  colleague  in  the  university. 
Nicholas  von  Amsdorf. 

The  History  of  Florence.    By  Niccolo  Machiavelli.     C. 
1525. 

"  To  our  most  holy  and  blessed  Father  and  Lord,  Clement 
VII,  his  humble  servant,  Niccolo  Machiavelli. 

"Most  holy  and  blessed  Father,  since  your  Holiness, 
before  attaining  your  present  exalted  position,  commissioned 
me  to  write  an  account  of  the  things  done  by  the  Florentine 


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people,  I  have  used  all  the  diligence  and  skill  given  me  by 
Nature  and  experience  to  satisfy  your  command.  Having 
now  in  the  course  of  my  writing  arrived  at  the  period  when 
the  death  of  the  Magnificent  Lorenzo  de'  Medici  caused  a 
change  in  the  government  of  Italy,  and  having  to  describe 
the  events  that  followed  with  a  greater  and  loftier  spirit, 
they  being  of  a  greater  and  more  elevated  character,  I  have 
deemed  it  well  to  reduce  all  I  have  written  up  to  that  epoch 
into  one  volume,  and  to  present  it  to  your  Holiness,  so  that 
you  may  begin  in  some  measure  to  enjoy  the  fruits  of  your 
sowing  and  of  my  labors.  .  .  .  And  being  particularly 
charged  and  commanded  by  your  Holiness  to  write  the 
doings  of  your  ancestors  [the  Pope  was  Guiliano  de'  Medici] 
in  such  manner  that  it  might  be  seen  that  I  was  free  from 
all  adulation  (the  true  praises  of  men  being  agreeable  to 
hear,  whilst  such  as  are  feigned  and  written  by  favor  are 
displeasing),  I  have  hesitated  much  in  describing  the  good- 
ness of  Giovanni,  the  wisdom  of  Cosimo,  the  humanity  of 
Piero,  and  the  magnificence  of  Lorenzo ;  so  that  it  might  not 
seem  to  your  Holiness  that  I  had  transgressed  your  com- 
mands." How  impossible  it  would  be  to  accuse  him  of 
flattery,  when  he  has  said  so  little  of  the  Pope's  father, 
whose  life  was  too  short  for  fame!  "Nevertheless,  the 
merit  of  having  been  the  father  of  your  Holiness  is  an  ample 
equivalent  of  all  those  of  his  ancestors,  and  will  insure  him 
more  centuries  of  fame  than  his  evil  fortune  took  years  from 
his  life." 

A  Godlie  Forme  of  Householde  Governement :  for  the 
Ordering  of  Private  Families  according  to  the  Direction 
of  God»s  Word:  etc.  Gathered  by  R[obert]  C[leaver]. 
London,  1598. 

"To  the  Right  Worshipful  Maister  Robert  Burgaine, 
of  Roxall,  One  of  her  Maiesti's  Justices  of  peace,  in  the 
Countie  of  Warwicke:  to  the  Right  Worshipful!  Maister 


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John  Dine,  of  Ridlington  Parke,  in  the  Countie  of  Rutland : 
and  to  the  Worshipfiill  Maister  Edmund  Temple,  of  Temple- 
hall,  in  the  Countie  of  Leicester,  Esquires,  as  also  to  their 
religious  and  virtuous  wives,  R.  C.  wisheth  with  heart  and 
mind  grace  from  God  the  Father  by  lesus  Christ,  and 
constancie  in  the  trueth  of  the  Gospell,  to  the  end,  and  in 
the  end." 

A  nine  page  Epistle  Dedicatorie  follows. 

Canaan's  Calamity,  Jerusalem's  Misery,  or  the  Doleful 
Destruction  of  faire  Jerusalem  by  Titus.  By  Thomas 
Dekker.     1618. 

"To  the  right  Worshipfull  M.  Richard  Kingsmill,Esquier, 
Justice  of  peace  and  Quorum  in  the  countie  of  Southampton 
and  Surveyor  of  her  Maiesties  Courtes  of  Wardes  and 
Liueries.     All  prosperitie  and  happines. 

"Hauing  (Right  Worshipfull)  often  heard  of  your  extra- 
ordinary favour,  shewed  in  the  depth  of  extremitie,  to  some 
poore  friendes  of  mine,  remayning  in  your  pleasant  Lord- 
ship of  High-deer e:  by  meanes  whereof,  they  haue  had  no 
small  comfort  for  the  recoverie  of  their  wished  desire:  I 
haue  been  studious  how  I  might  in  some  measure  declare 
both  their  thankfullnesse  and  mine  owne  for  so  great  a  good. 
But  such  is  our  weake  abillity  that  we  cannot  requite  the 
least  poynt  of  that  life  prolonging  kindnes,  which  the 
riches  of  your  courtesie  did  yeeld:  neuerthelesse  to  make 
apparent  that  our  poore  estates  shall  not  obscure,  or  clowd 
with  ingratitude,  the  well  intending  thoughts  of  our  hearts: 
I  haue  presumed  to  present  to  your  worship  this  little 
booke,  an  unfaigned  token  of  our  good  affection,  hoping 
that  like  the  Princely  Pertian  you  will  more  respect  the  good 
will  than  the  gift,  which  I  confesse  farre  unworthy  so  worthy 
a  Patron  in  respect  of  the  simple  handling  of  so  excellent  a 
matter:  But  a  playne  stile  doth  best  become  plaine  truth, 
for  a  trifling  fable  hath   most  neede  of  a  pleasant  pen: 


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Wherefore  if  it  shall  please  your  Worship  to  esteeme  of  my 
simple  labour,  and  to  let  this  passe  under  your  favorable 
protection,  I  shall  haue  the  end  of  my  desire.  And  resting 
thus  in  the  hope  of  your  Worships  courtsie,  I  cease  wishing 
you  all  hearts  content  in  this  life,  and  in  the  world  to  come 
eternall  felicitie. 

"Your  Worships  most  humblie  affectionate: 

"T.  D." 

A  Tragic  Crown:   Life  and  Death  of  Mary  Stewart.     By 
Lope  Felix  de  Vega  Carpio,     1627. 

"To  our  Most  Holy  Pope  Urban  VIII,  Pont.  Max. 

"The  History  of  Mary  Stuart,  Queen  of  Scotland,  an 
extraordinary  victim  of  all  that  mortals  call  Fortune,  in 
whose  life  adversity  and  patience  competed  equally  from 
the  cradle  to  the  ax,  I  dedicated  to  Your  Holiness  first,  be- 
fittingly,  in  the  Latin  tongue,  not  only  because  of  the 
greatness  and  authority  of  the  subject  as  because  of  Your 
Holiness  having  in  your  tender  years  honored  her  tomb  with 
such  excellent  Praise  that  it  was  as  beatifying  her  in  profecy : 
in  that  to-day  Your  Holiness  occupies  the  Apostolic  chair 
with  the  general  commendation  of  the  Church.  This  time, 
Most  Holy  Father,  it  is  in  the  common  language  of  Spain, 
that  it  goes  back  from  me  to  the  sacred  feet  of  Your  Holiness 
fearful,  but  encouraged  because  of  the  first  attempt  when, 
for  the  same  reason,  I  begged  forgiveness  for  the  two.  May 
Your  Holiness  receive  it  benignly,  adjusting  the  infinite 
distance  of  my  rudeness  to  the  splendor  of  your  superior 
understanding,  as  so  well  employed  boldness  expects  of 
your  bountiful  magnificence.  May  Our  Lord  keep  Your 
Holiness  many  years,  for  the  universal  Church  has  the 
need,  and  it  is  the  desire  of  your  servants. 
"Most  Holy  Father, 

"Humble  servant  of  Your  Holiness, 

"Lope  FeUx  de  Vega  Carpio." 

(From  the  Spanish.) 


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The  Essays  of  Michel  de  Montaigne.     1635. 

(Mile,  de  Gournay,  fille  d' alliance  of  Montaigne,  dedi- 
cated the  edition  of  1635  to  Cardinal  Richelieu,  who  had 
given  her  assistance  in  the  preparation  of  the  edition.) 

"To  Monseigneur,  the  Most  Eminent  Cardinal,  due  de 
Richelieu. 

"Monseigneur: 

"I  cannot  give  the  essays  to  you,  because  they  are  not 
mine,  but  cognizant,  nevertheless,  that  all  that  is  illustrious 
in  our  age  passes  through  your  hands  or  owes  you  homage, 
I  have  thought  that  the  name  of  your  Eminence  ought  to 
adorn  the  frontispiece  of  this  book.  It  is  true,  Monseigneur, 
that  the  homage  rendered  here  to  you,  by  my  agency,  is 
very  irregular;  though  it  is  not  in  my  power  to  bestow  these 
essays  upon  you,  I  dare  to  give  them  to  you  as  a  legacy: 
that  is  to  say,  that,  as  I  shall  soon  be  entombed  within  the 
sepulchre,  I  consign  to  you  this  orphan  which  was  committed 
to  me  in  order  that  it  may  please  you  henceforth  to  hold 
the  place  of  guardian  and  protector.  I  hope  that  the  respect 
alone  of  your  authority  will  render  to  it  this  office :  and  that, 
as  the  hawks  were  not  permitted  to  enter  the  temple  of 
Hercules,  whose  imitator  you  are,  neither  will  the  impure 
hands  which  for  a  long  time  have  defamed  this  same  book, 
by  so  many  ill-timed  editions,  dare  again  to  commit  the 
sacrilege  of  approaching  it  when  they  see  it  in  your  protec- 
tion by  this  edition,  which  your  liberality  has  aided  me  in 
bringing  to  light.  How  well  I  shall  repose  in  the  other 
world  for  having  been  sufficiently  bold  in  discharging  this 
duty  by  naming  such  an  executor  of  my  will  as  the  great 
Cardinal  Richelieu!  and  of  seeing  from  above  that  it  is 
remembered  below;  that  I  have  had  the  judgment  to  dis- 
cern to  what  excellence  and  highness  of  soul  I  ought  to 
assign  the  protection  of  the  most  excellent  and  highest 
gift  which  the  Muses  have  made  to  men  since  the  triumph- 
ant ages  of  the  Greeks  and  Romans." 


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One   of  the   Politic?.!   Tracts   of   Denzil   Holies   has  the 
Following  Dedication  (1647) : 

"To  the  unparralleled  couple,  Mr.  Oliver  St.  John,  his 
Majesty's  Solicitor-general,  and  Oliver  Cromwell,  the 
parliament's  lieutenant-general,  the  two  grand  designers 
of  the  ruin  of  three  kingdoms. 

"  Gentlemen, — As  you  have  been  principal  in  ministering 
of  this  discourse,  and  giving  me  the  leisure  of  making  it, 
by  banishing  me  from  my  country  and  business;  so  it  is 
reason  I  shall  particularly  address  it  to  you.  You  shall 
find  in  it  some  representation  of  the  grosser  lines  of  your 
features,  those  outward  enormities  that  make  you  remark- 
able, and  your  picture  easy  to  be  known,  which  cannot  be 
expected  here  so  fully  to  the  life  as  I  could  wish;  he  only 
can  do  that  whose  eye  and  hand  have  been  with  you  in 
secret  councils, — who  has  seen  you  at  your  meetings, — 
your  Sabbaths,  where  you  have  lain  by  your  assured  shapes 
(with  which  you  cozened  the  world)  and  resumed  your  own, 
imparting  each  to  other,  and  both  of  you  to  your  fellow- 
witches, — the  bottom  of  your  design,  the  policy  of  your 
actings,  the  turns  of  your  contrivances, — all  your  false- 
hoods, cozenings,  villainies  and  cruelties,  with  your  full 
intentions  to  ruin  the  three  kingdoms.  All  I  will  say  to 
you  is,  what  St.  Peter  said  to  Simon  the  sorcerer — '  Repent, 
therefore,  of  this  your  wickedness';  and  pray  to  God,  if 
perhaps  the  thoughts  of  your  hearts  may  be  forgiven  you: 
and  if  you  have  not  grace  to  pray  for  yourselves  (as  it  may 
be  you  have  not),  I  have  charity  to  do  it  for  you,  but  not 
faith  enough  to  trust  you.  So,  I  remain,  thank  God,  not 
in  your  power,  and  as  little  at  your  service, 

"Denzil  Holies. 

"At  S.  Mere.  Eglide,  in  Normandy, 

this  14th  day  of  Feb.,  1647,  St.  V." 

"Denzil  Holies,  the  leader  of  the  Presb3rterians  who  in  1647 
made  a  motion  in  Parliament  for  disbanding  the  army,  and  was 
9 


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defeated,  had  to  fly  to  Normandy  to  escape  an  impeachment  for 
high  treason." 

(Quoted  from  Wheatley's  Dedication  of  Books,  107,  108.) 


Killing  Noe  Murder  Briefly  Discourst  In  Three  Questions. 
By  William  Allen  (Colonel  Silas  Titus).     1657. 

"To  his  Highnesse  Oliver  Cromwell, 

"  May  it  please  your  Highnesse, — How  I  have  spent  some 
howers  of  the  leasure  your  Highnes  hath  been  pleased  to 
give  me,  this  following  Paper  will  give  your  Highnes  an 
accompt.  How  you  will  please  to  interpret  it  I  can  not 
tell,  but  I  can  with  confidence  say  my  intention  in  it  is, 
to  procure  your  Highnes  that  justice  nobody  yet  does  you, 
and  to  let  the  people  see  the  longer  they  deferr  it  the  greater 
injury  they  doe  both  themselves  and  you:  To  your  Highnes 
justly  belongs  the  honour  of  dying  for  the  people,  and  it 
cannot  choose  but  be  an  unspeakable  consolation  to  you  in 
the  last  moments  of  your  life  to  consider,  with  how  much 
benefit  to  the  world  you  are  like  to  leave  it.  'T  is  then  onely 
(my  Lord)  the  titles  you  now  usurpe  will  be  truly  yours; 
you  will  then  be  indeed  the  deliverer  of  your  country  and 
free  it  from  a  bondage  little  inferior  to  that  from  which 
Moyses  delivered  his.  You  will  then  be  that  true  Reformer, 
which  you  would  now  be  thought.  Religion  shal  be  then 
restored,  Liberty  asserted  and  Parliaments  have  those 
priviledges  they  have  sought  for.  We  shall  then  hope  that 
other  Lawes  will  have  place  besides  those  of  the  sword,  and 
that  justice  shal  be  otherwise  defind  then  the  will  and 
pleasure  of  the  strongest,  and  we  shal  then  hope  men  will 
keep  oathes  again,  and  not  have  the  necessitie  of  being 
false,  and  perfidious  to  preser\^e  themselves  and  be  like  their 
Rulers:  all  this  we  hope  from  your  Highnes  happie  expira- 
tion who  are  the  true  father  of  your  countrie,  for  while  you 
live  we  can  call  nothing  ours,  and  as  it  is  from  your  death 
that  we  hope  for  our  inheritances.     Let  this  consideration 


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arme  and  fortifie  your  Highnesses  minde  against  the  feares 

of  deathe,  and  the  terrours  of  your  evil  conscience,  that 

the  good  you  will  doe  by  your  death,  wil  something  ballance 

the  evils  of  your  life.     And  if  in  the  black  catalogue  of 

High  malefactors  few  can  be  found  that  have  lived  more 

to  the  affliction  and  disturbance  of  mankind,  then  your 

Highnes  hath  done,  yet  your  greatest  enemies  will  not  deny 

but  there  are  likewise  as  few  that  have  expired  more  to  the 

universall  benefit  of  mankind  then  your  Highnes  is  like  to 

doe.      To  hasten  this  great   good  is  the  chief  end  of  my 

writing  this  paper,  and  if  it  have  the  effects  I  hope  it  will 

your  Highnesse  will  quickly  be  out  of  reach  of  mens  malice, 

and  your  enemies  will  only  be  able  to  wound  you  in  your 

memory,    which   strokes   you   will   not   feel.     That   your 

Highnesse  may  be  speedily  in  this  security  is  the  universall 

wishes  of  your  gratefull  countrey.     This  is  the  desires  and 

prayers  of  the  good  and  of  the  bad,  and  it  may  be  is  the 

only  thing  wherein  all  sects  and  factions  do  agree  in  their 

devotions,  and  is  our  only  common  prayer.     But  amongst 

all  that  put  in  their  requests  and  supplications  for  your 

Highnesses  speedy  deliverance  from  all  earthly  troubles 

none  is  more  assiduous  nor  more  fervent  than  he,  that  with 

the  rest  of  the  nation  hath  the  honour  to  be 

"May  it  please  your  Highnesse 

"Your  Highnesse  present  slave  and  vassall, 

"W.  A." 
(Quoted  from  Wheatley's  Dedication  of  Books,  109.) 

The  Three  Last  Spanish  Muses.     By  Francisco  de  Quevedo 
Villegas.     1670. 

"To  the  Most  Excellent  Sefior  D.  Pasqual  de  Aragon, 
Cardinal  of  the  Holy  Church  of  Rome,  of  the  title  of  Saint 
Sabina,  Archbishop  of  Toledo,  First  in  Ecclesiastical  Dig- 
nity of  Spain,  Senior  Chancellor  of  Castile,  Member  of 
His  Majesty's  Council  of  State,  and  Governor  of  these 
Kingdoms,  etc. 


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"All  the  works  of  Don  Francisco  de  Quevedo,  in  verse 
or  in  prose,  sacred  or  burlesque,  are  directed  to  the  reforma- 
tion of  customs,  and  contain  exalted  teaching.  For  this 
reason,  and  also  because  of  the  well-known  zeal  of  Your 
Eminence  from  youth  for  the  reformation  of  vices,  by 
example  as  well  as  by  writings,  it  has  seemed  to  me  that  no 
one  else  should  be  offered  the  patronage  of  these  works, 
containing  all  that  is  sacred  which  the  author  wrote  in 
verse.  With  the  renowned  deeds  of  Your  Eminence  I  am 
particularly  cognizant,  having  known  you  in  the  University 
of  Salamanca  as  a  student  who  seemed  to  forget  that  he  was 
the  descendant  of  so  high  and  sovereign  kings  and  princes, 
and  gave  himself  to  1  terary  work  as  if  he  were  the  most 
destitute  of  fortune.  Your  learning  made  pupils  of  your 
masters  and  teachers,  and  added  to  this  was  the  multitude 
of  virtues  which  from  that  age  have  shown  resplendently 
in  Your  Eminence.  I  returned  to  the  University  in  1648, 
having  been  honored  by  the  College  of  My  Lord  the  Arch- 
bishop, on  the  eighth  of  February  of  that  same  year,  with 
the  insignia  of  Chaplain  of  that  sacred  edifice.  I  found 
Your  Eminence  a  master  in  the  College  of  St.  Bartholomew, 
with  inexpressible  care  teaching  all  by  your  learning  and 
example.  In  the  court  at  the  same  time,  by  caring  for 
what  is  most  arduous  in  the  government  of  the  Monarchy, 
you  assist  in  the  welfare  and  improvement  of  the  subjects; 
by  the  teaching  of  doctrine  and  by  the  celestial  dew  of  many 
jubilees  and  missions,  you  assist  in  the  welfare  and  improve- 
ment of  their  souls ;  and  by  innumerable  charities  you  succor 
the  spiritual  and  corporal  necessities  of  all.  My  earnest 
wish  is  that  God  may  preserve  Your  Eminence  in  your 
greatness. 

"  Most  Eminent  Sir, 

"I  kiss  the  hand  of  Your  Eminence. 

"  Don  Pedro  Aldrete  Quevedo  y  Villegas. 


"Madrid,  1670." 


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't) 


Sacramental,  Allegorical,  and  Historical  Ordinances.     By 
Pedro  Calderon  de  la  Barca.     Madrid,  1690. 

"To  the  Patriarch  San  Juan  de  Dios. 

"Narrow  are  the  limits  of  a  dedication,  Most  loved 
Patriarch,  for  the  eulogy  of  thy  virtues,  when  many  books 
could  not  contain  thy  grandeur,  O  immense  sea  of  charity, 
which  discouragest  my  littleness  so  that  I  do  not  dare  to 
search  out  such  gigantic  marvels.  He  who  is  weighted 
with  gratitude  is  not  satisfied  until  he  finds  relief  in  the 
discharge  of  his  obligations;  those  which  I  confess  are  so 
great  that  their  satisfaction  is  impossible, — but  not  their 
acknowledgement.  I  venerate  the  occupation  which  thou 
hast  of  bookseller  in  the  streets  of  the  fortunate  city  of 
Granada.  Thou  hast  achieved  the  greatest  sale  that  could 
be  desired  by  any  of  those  who  pursue  the  honest  use  of 
books.  The  mediator  of  it  was  the  Apostle  of  Andalusia, 
that  valorous  soldier  of  Christ,  the  venerable  teacher, 
Avila,  since,  on  hearing  his  teaching,  thou  didst  cast  th}^- 
self  at  his  feet,  giving  him  an  account  of  thy  soul;  didst 
deliver  the  profane  and  useless  books  to  the  fire  and  to  the 
destruction  of  thy  hands;  and,  ambitious,  didst  sell  the 
remainder  at  a  very  high  price,  since  that  which  was  sold 
on  earth  was  paid  for  in  heaven.  My  humility  approaches 
to  thee.  Sacred  Bookseller,  to  thee,  poor,  yet  most  rich;  to 
thee,  divine  man;  to  thee,  humble,  yet  most  excellent; 
to  thee,  palm  of  charity;  to  thee — but  to  whom  but  thee 
could  there  be  restored,  not  dedicated,  these  sacred  writings, 
which,  by  my  flitting  zeal,  are  repeated;  robbery  it  would 
be  to  give  them  to  another,  being  thine  in  every  way — 
thine  by  their  subject,  since  the  theme  is  Christ  the  Sacra- 
ment. They  are  thine  by  my  employment,  and  may  the 
grandeur  of  the  subject  excuse  the  smallness  of  him  who 
restores  them  to  you;  it  is  the  duty  of  the  rivers  to  return 
to  the  sea  where  they  have  their  origin.  Of  all  that  I  am 
I  recognize  thee  master,  my  loved  Father.     I  am  a  humble 


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rivulet  of  this  sea,  sand  of  this  shore.  The  grateful  brook 
returns  to  the  sea,  and  where  the  sea  goes,  there  go  the 
sands  of  my  humble  work  and  employment,  in  order  that 
the  esteem  they  lack  in  being  mine  they  may  attain  in  the 
fortune  of  being  yours. 

"Thy  most  humble  and  unworthy  admirer, 

"Francisco  Sazedon." 

The  Works  of  Joseph  Addison.     1719. 

"To  the  Right  Honourable  James  Craggs,  Esquire,  his 
Majesty's  principal  secretary  of  State. 

"Dear  Sir. 

"I  cannot  wish  that  any  of  my  v/ritings  should  last 
longer  than  the  memory  of  our  friendship,  and  therefore  I 
thus  publicly  bequeath  them  to  you,  in  return  for  the  many 
valuable  instances  of  your  affection. 

"That  they  may  come  to  you  with  as  little  disadvantage 
as  possible,  I  have  left  the  care  of  them  to  one  [Thomas 
Tickell],  whom,  by  the  experience  of  some  years,  I  know 
well  qualified  to  answer  my  intentions.  He  has  already 
the  honour  and  happiness  of  being  under  your  protection; 
and,  as  he  will  very  much  stand  in  need  of  it,  I  cannot  wish 
him  better,  than  that  he  may  continue  to  deserve  the  favour 
and  countenance  of  such  a  patron. 

"  I  have  no  time  to  lay  out  in  forming  such  compliments, 
as  would  but  ill  suit  that  familiarity  between  us,  which  was 
once  my  greatest  pleasure  and  will  be  my  greatest  honour 
hereafter.  Instead  of  them,  accept  of  my  hearty  wishes, 
that  the  great  reputation  you  have  acquired  so  early  may 
increase  more  and  more :  and  that  you  may  long  serve  your 
country,  with  those  excellent  talents  and  unblemished 
integrity,  which  have  so  powerfully  recommended  you  to 
the  most  gracious  and  amiable  monarch  that  ever  filled 
a  throne.  May  the  frankness  and  generosity  of  your 
spirit  continue  to  soften  and  subdue  your  enemies,  and 
gain  you  many  friends,  if  possible,  as  sincere  as  yourself. 


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When  you  have  found  such,  they  cannot  wish  you  more 
true  happiness  than  I,  who  am,  with  the  greatest  zeal, 
"  Dear  Sir,  your  most  entirely  affectionate  Friend, 
"And  faithful  obedient  Servant, 

"J.  Addison. 
"June,  4,  1719." 

The  concluding  stanza  of  Tickell's  introductory  poem,  addressed 
to  Addison's  stepson,  the  Earl  of  Warwick,  records  the  death  of 
both  Addison  and  Craggs  before  the  publication  of  the  Works: 

"These  works  divine,  which,  on  his  death-bed  laid. 
To  thee,  O,  Craggs,  th'  expiring  Sage  convey 'd; 
Great,  but  ill-omen'd,  monument  of  fame; 
Nor  he  surviv'd  to  give,  nor  thou  to  claim. 
Swift  after  him  thy  social  spirit  flies, 
And  close  to  his,  how  soon!  thy  coffin  lies. 
Blest  pair!     Whose  union  future  bards  shall  tell 
In  future  tongues:  each  other's  boast!  farewell. 
Farewell!  whom  join'd  in  fame,  in  friendship  try'd, 
No  chance  could  sever,  nor  the  grave  divide." 

Le  Fanatisme,  ou  Mahomet  le  Prophete.     By  Voltaire. 
1741. 

DEDICATED   TO  POPE   BENEDICT   XIV. 

"Most  Holy  Father, 

"Your  Holiness  will  pardon  the  liberty  taken  by  one  of 
the  humblest  of  men,  but  one  of  the  greatest  admirers  of 
virtue,  in  dedicating  to  the  head  of  the  true  religion  a  work 
directed  against  the  founder  of  a  false  and  barbarous  religion. 

' '  To  whom  could  I  more  appropriately  address  the  satire 
upon  the  cruelty  and  the  errors  of  a  false  prophet  than  to 
the  Vicar  and  imitator  of  a  God  of  peace  and  truth? 

"May  your  Holiness  deign  to  permit  me  to  lay  at  your 
feet  both  book  and  author.  I  dare  ask  of  you  protection 
for  the  one,  and  a  blessing  for  the  other.  It  is  with  these 
sentiments  of  profound  veneration  that  I  bow  and  kiss  your 
sacred  feet. 

"Paris,  August  17,  1745." 


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Voltaire's  enemies  cried  out  against  the  impieties  of  this  tragedy, 
which  was  performed  at  Paris  in  August,  1742,  and  it  was  withdrawn 
after  three  representations.  Voltaire  wrote  to  d'Argental  on  August 
22  that  since  he  was  the  victim  of  jansenistes,  he  would  dedicate 
Mahomet  to  the  Pope.  This  he  proceeded  to  do;  and  the  Pope, 
flattered  in  his  literary  self-love,  replied  most  amiably  to  his  dear 
son,  spoke  of  the  admirable  tragedy,  which  he  had  read  with  great 
pleasure,  and  discoursed  of  literary  matters.  In  answer,  the  vir- 
tuous Voltaire  declared  that  he  was  forced  to  recognize  the  Papal 
infallibility  in  literary  as  in  other  matters.  All  this  correspondence 
proved  most  astonishing  to  the  philosopher's  enemies. 

Night  Thoughts.     By  Edward  Young.     1 742-1 744. 

Night  First  was  dedicated  "To  the  Right  Honour- 
able Arthur  Onslow,  Esq.,  Speaker  of  the  House  of 
Commons." 

Of  the  nine  Nights,  se/en  had  separate  dedications — to  the 
Earl  of  Wilmington,  the  Duchess  of  Bedford,  Mr.  Yorke,  and 
so  on. 

The  Life  and  Opinions  of  Tristram  Shandy,  Gentleman. 
By  Laurence  Sterne.     2nd  edition,  1760. 

"To  the  Right  Honourable  Mr.  Pitt.  Sir, 
"Never  poor  Wight  of  a  Dedicator  had  less  hopes  from 
his  Dedication,  than  I  have  from  this  of  mine;  for  it  is 
written  in  a  bye  corner  of  the  kingdom,  and  in  a  retired 
thatch' d  house,  where  I  live  in  a  constant  endeavour  to 
fence  against  the  infirmities  of  ill  health,  and  other  evils 
of  life,  by  mirth,  being  firmly  persuaded  that  every  time 
a  man  smiles,  but  much  more  so  when  he  laughs,  it  adds 
something  to  this  Fragment  of  Life. 

"I  humbly  beg,  Sir,  that  you  will  honour  this  book  by 
taking  it — (not  under  your  Protection, — it  must  protect 
itself,  but) — into  the  country  with  you;  where  if  I  am  ever 
told,  it  has  made  you  smile ;  or  can  conceive  it  has  beguiled 
you  of  one  moment's  pain — I  shall  think  myself  happier 


To  Dignitaries  of  Church  and  State    137 


than  any  one   (one  only  excepted)  that  I    have  read  or 
heard  of. 

"I  am,  great  Sir, 

"  (and  what  is  more  to  your  Honour), 
"I  am,  good  Sir, 
"Your  well- wisher, 

"  And  most  humble  Fellow-Subject, 

"The  Author." 

In  the  eighth  and  ninth  chapters  of  Tristram  Shandy,  Sterne 
writes  to  an  imaginary  lord:  "My  Lord, — I  maintain  this  to  be  a 
dedication,  notwithstanding  its  singularity  in  the  three  great 
essentials  of  matter,  form,  and  place.  I  beg,  therefore,  you  will 
accept  it  as  such,  and  that  you  will  permit  me  to  lay  it,  with  the 
most  respectful  humility,  at  your  Lordship's  feet, — when  you  are 
upon  them, — which  you  can  be  when  you  please;  and  that  is,  my 
Lord,  whenever  there  is  occasion  for  it,  and  I  will  add,  to  the  best 
purposes  too.  I  have  the  honour  to  be,  my  Lord,  your  Lordship's 
most  obedient,  and  most  devoted,  and  most  humble  servant, 

"Tristram  Shandy." 

He  goes  on:  "I  solemnly  declare,  to  all  mankind,  that  the  above 
dedication  was  made  for  no  one  Prince,  Prelate,  Pope,  or  Potentate, 
— Duke,  Marquis,  Earl,  Viscount,  or  Baron,  of  this,  or  any  other 
realm  in  Christendom;  nor  has  it  yet  been  hawked  about,  or  offered 
publicly  or  privately,  directly  or  indirectly,  to  any  one  person  or 
personage,  great  or  small;  but  is  honestly  a  true  virgin  dedication 
untried  on  upon  any  soul  living. 

"  I  labour  this  point  so  particularly  merely  to  remove  any  offence 
or  objection  which  might  arise  against  it  from  the  manner  in  which 
I  propose  to  make  the  most  of  it; — which  is  the  putting  of  it  up 
fairly  to  public  sale."  etc. 

Sermons  on  the  Lord's  Prayer.     By  Charles  Churchill. 
C.  1765. 

"While  dedications  are  not  always  altogether  pleasing  to  the 
persons  to  whom  they  are  addressed,  it  is  not  often  that  their  very 
abusiveness  adds  to  the  market  value  of  the  books  which  contain 
them,  as  in  the  case  of  Churchill's  Sermons  on  the  Lord's  Prayer. 
Among  their  reputed  author's  posthumous  papers  was  found  an 
unfinished  dedication  to  William  Warburton,  Dean  of  Bristol  and 
Bishop  of  Gloucester,  the  character  of  which  inspired  the  publishers 


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to  give  two  hundred  and  fifty  pounds  sterling  for  the  ten  sermons 
to  which  it  was  prefixed,  sermons  so  poor  in  themselves  that  they 
are  generally  believed  to  have  been  the  work  of  a  duller,  but  better, 
man  than  the  writer  of  the  Rosciad.  Whoever  originally  delivered 
the  discourses,  however,  there  can  be  no  question  as  to  the  author- 
ship of  the  dedication.  It  is  written  in  a  strain  of  terrible  irony." 
(From  the  Books  of  Laurence  Hutton,  142.) 

Extracts  from  the  dedication,  as  given  by  Wheatley,  follow: 

"To  the  Great  Gloster  health! 
Nor  let  thy  true  and  proper  love  of  wealth 
Here  take  a  false  alarm — in  purse  though  poor, 
In  spirit  I  'm  right  proud,  nor  can  endure 
The  mention  of  a  bribe — thy  pocket's  free, 
I,  though  a  Dedicator,  scorn  a  fee. 
Let  thy  own  offspring  all  thy  fortunes  share; 
I  would  not  Allen  rob,  nor  Allen's  heir. 

"  Doctor,  Dean,  Bishop,  Gloster  and  my  Lord, 
If  haply  these  high  titles  may  accord 
With  thy  meek  spirit.  .  .  . 

"Let  not  thy  brain  (as  brains  less  potent  might) 
Dizzy  confounded,  giddy  with  the  height, 
Turn  round,  and  lose  distinction,  lose  her  skill 
And  wonted  power  of  knowing  good  from  ill, 
Of  sifting  truth  from  falsehood,  friends  from  foes, 
Let  Glo'ster  well  remember  how  he  rose, 
Nor  turn  his  back  on  men  who  made  him  great, 
Let  him  not,  gorged  with  power,  and  drunk  with  state, 
Forget  what  once  he  was  though  now  so  high, 
How  low,  how  mean,  and  full  as  poor  as  I." 

"  The  Bishop  of  Gloucester,  gorged  with  power,  lived  fourteen 
or  fifteen  years  after  this,  and  must  have  found  comfort  in  the  fact 
that  the  publishers  of  the  Sermons  suflfered  as  much  in  their  pockets 
by  the  venture  as  he  did  in  his  feelings."  (From  the  Books  of 
Laurence  Hutton.) 


To  Dignitaries  of  Church  and  State    139 


A  New  and  Complete  System  of  Arithmetic.     By  Nicolas 
Pike.     1786. 

"To  His  Excellency,  James  Bowdoin,  Esquire,  Governor 
and  Commander  in  Chief  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Mas- 
sachusetts and  President  of  the  American  Academy  of 
Arts  and  Sciences. 

"May  it  please  your  Excellency,  the  author  of  this 
System,  anxious  to  procure  for  it  a  favorable  Reception 
from  his  Fellow-citizens,  takes  the  liberty  of  soliciting  the 
Honour  of  your  Excellency's  Patronage. 

"As  this  Work  is  the  first  of  the  kind  composed  in 
America,  he  feels  he  is  entitled  to  the  candid  indulgence  of 
the  Learned  in  general — and  from  your  Excellency's  zeal 
for  the  advancement  of  the  Sciences,  and  attachment  to 
the  Republic  of  Letters,  he  rests  assured  that  the  Public 
will  pardon  him  the  ambition  of  inscribing  your  Name  to 
this  Literary  Attempt. 

"That  your  Excellency  may  long  continue  the  Ornament 
of  your  Coimtry  and  the  Delight  of  your  Friends  is  the 
ardent  wish  of 

"May  it  please  your  Excellency, 

"Your  Excellency's  much  Obliged 
"  Most  Obedient 

"and  very  Humble  Servant 

"Nicolas  Pike. 

"  Newbury-port,   Commonwealth 

of  Massachusetts  June  ist,  1786." 

(In  the  library  of  Mr.  G.  A.  Plimpton.) 

Pike  offered  to  dedicate  the  book  to  Washington,  as  the  following 

letter  from  Washington  shows: 

"Mount  Vernon,  20th  June,  1786. 
"Sir, 

"Your  letter  of  the  25th  of  March  did  not  come  to  hand  till 
lately  or  it  should  have  had  an  earlier  acknowledgement. 

"It  gives  me  the  highest  satisfaction  to  find  the  Arts  and  Sci- 
ences making  a  progress  in  any  Country;  but  when  I  see  them 


140  Dedications 


advancing  in  the  rising  States  of  America  I  feel  a  peculiar  pleasure : 
and  in  my  opinion,  every  effort  of  Genius,  and  all  attempts  towards 
improving  useful  knowledge  ought  to  meet  with  encouragement  in 
this  Country.  Your  performance  is  of  the  most  useful  and  bene- 
ficial kind,  and  from  the  opinion  of  those  Gentlemen  who  have 
inspected  it  I  have  not  the  least  doubt  that  it  is  a  very  valuable 
one. 

"I  feel  a  grateful  sense  of  the  honour  which  you  designed  me  by 
wishing  to  dedicate  your  Book  to  me,  and  would  even  sacrifice  my 
own  ideas  of  propriety  respecting  the  matter  so  far  as  to  comply 
with  your  request,  if  I  thought  that  by  a  non-compliance  I  should 
discourage  so  good  a  work.  But  Sir,  as  there  are  several  Characters 
in  your  part  of  the  country  who  deservedly  hold  a  high  rank  in  the 
literary  world,  and  whose  names  would  add  dignity  to  such  a 
performance;  it  would  be  more  proper  (if  I  might  presume  to  offer 
my  opinion  upon  the  matter)  to  dedicate  your  Book  to  them.  I 
must  therefore  beg  leave  to  decline  the  honour  which  you  would  do 
me,  as  I  have  before  done  in  two  or  th[r]ee  cases  of  a  similar  kind. 

"With  sincerest  wishes  for  the  success  of  your  work,  and  much 
esteem,  I  am  Sir 

"Your  Obdt.  Huml.  Servt. 

"G:  Washington, 
"To 

"Nicholas  Pike,  Esq""-" 

Dissertations  on  the  English  Language.     By  Noah  Webster, 
Jun.  Esquire.     Boston,  1789. 

"To  His  Excellency  Benjamin  Franklin,  Esq.,  LL.D., 
F.R.S.,  Late  President  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, The  following  Dissertations  Are  most  respectfully 
Inscribed  By  His  Excellency's  Most  obliged  and  most 
obedient  Servant 

"The  Author. 

"Dedications  are  usually  designed  to  flatter  the  Great, 
to  acknowledge  their  services,  or  court  their  favor  and 
influence.  But  very  different  motives  have  led  me  to 
prefix  the  venerable  name  of  Franklin  to  this  publication. 

"Respect  for  his  Excellency's  talents  and  exertions,  as  a 
great  Philosopher  and  a  warm  Patriot,  I  feel  in  common  with 
all  the  lovers  of  science  and  freedom;  but  my  peculiar 


To  Dignitaries  of  Church  and  State    141 

admiration  of  his  character  arises  from  considering  it  as 
great  in  common  things.''  &c.  &c. 

The  Hediya ;  or  Guide ;  A  Commentary  on  the  Mussulman 
Laws.     Translated  by  Charles  Hamilton.     1791- 

"To  Warren  Hastings,  Esq.,  late   Governor-General  of 
Bengal,  etc. 

"Sir, 

"After  the  labour  of  several  years,   I  am  at  last  en- 
abled to  present  you  with  a  translation  of  the  Heddya. 

"To  you.  Sir,  I  feel  it  incumbent  on  me  to  inscribe  a 
work  originally  projected  by  yourself,  and  for  some  time 
carried  on  under  your  immediate  patronage. — However 
humble  the  translator's  abilities,  and  however  imperfect 
the  execution  of  these  volumes  may  be,  yet  the  design  itself 
does  honour  to  the  wisdom  and  benevolence  by  which  it  was 
suggested ;  and  if  I  might  be  allowed  to  express  a  hope  upon 
the  subject,  it  is,  that  its  future  beneficial  effects,  in  facili- 
tating the  administration  of  Justice  throughout  otu*  Asiatic 
territories,  and  uniting  us  still  more  closely  with  our  Mus- 
sulman Subjects,  may  reflect  some  additional  lustre  on 
your  Administration. — I  have  the  honoiir  to  be,  with  the 
utmost  respect,  and  the  most  lively  gratitude  and  esteem, 
"Sir, 

"Your  most  obedient, 

"and  most  humble  Servant, 

"Charles  Hamilton." 

The  Diversions  of  Purley.     By  John  Home  Tooke.     1805. 

(Volume  n.) 

"To  Messieurs 

James  Haygarth  Robert  Mains 

Thomas  Harrison  William  Cooke 

Edward  Hale  Charles  Pratt 

Thomas  Draine  Matthias  Dupont 

Matthew  Whiting  William  Harwood 

Norrison  Coverdale  Henry  Bullock 


142  Dedications 


"To  you,  Gentlemen,  my  Jury,  I  present  this  small  portion 
of  the  fruits  of  your  integrity;  which  decided  in  my  favor 
the  bill  of  Chancery  filed  against  my  life: 

"And  to  my  learned  counsel,  the  Hon.  Thomas  Erskine, 
Vicary  Gibbs,  Esq.,  and  their  assistants, 

Henry  Dampier,  Esq., 

Felix  Vaughan,  Esq., 

John  Gumey,  Esq. 

The  reference  is  to  Home  Tooke's  trial  (November,  1794)  for 
high  treason,  on  the  ground  of  his  supposed  connection  with  the 
"corresponding  societies"  which  had  circulated  Paine's  writings, 
and  had  been  in  communication  with  French  Revolutionary  leaders. 
Tooke  had  been  engaged  in  the  dangerous  amusement  of  making 
sham  confessions  to  a  spy. 

Christian  Morals.     By  Hannah  More.     18 13. 

"As  a  slight  memorial  of  sincere  esteem  and  cordial 
friendship,  this  little  sketch  of  Christian  Morals  is,  with 
strict  propriety,  inscribed  to  the  Rev.  Thomas  Gisborne, 
of  Yoxall  Lodge;  in  his  writings  and  in  his  life,  a  consistent 
Christian  moralist." 

An  Inquiry  into  the  Origin  and  Early  History  of  Engraving 
upon  Copper  and  in  Wood.  By  William  Young  Ottley. 
1816. 

"To  the  Right  Honorable  George  John,  Earl  Spencer, 
K.G.,  etc.,  this  work  is  respectfully  dedicated,  with  a  due 
sense  of  the  advantages  derived  in  the  course  of  its  progress, 
from  the  use  of  many  rare  and  valuable  materials,  contained 
in  his  lordship's  magnificent  library,  by  the  author." 

Hints  towards  Forming  the  Character  of  A  Young  Princess. 
By  Hannah  More.     1819. 

"To   the  Right  Reverend  The  Lord  Bishop  of  Exeter 
(Dr.  John  Fisher). 
"My  Lord, 
"Could  it  have  been  foreseen  by  the  Author  of  the  fol- 


To  Dignitaries  of  Church  and  State    143 


lowing  pages,  that,  in  the  case  of  the  illustrious  Person  who 
is  the  subject  of  them,  the  standard  of  Education  would 
have  been  set  so  high;  and  especially,  that  this  Education 
would  be  committed  to  such  able  and  distinguished  hands, 
the  work  might  surely  have  been  spared.  But  as  the 
Second  Volume  was  gone  to  the  press  before  that  appoint- 
ment was  announced,  which  must  give  general  satisfaction, 
it  becomes  important  to  request,  that  if  the  advice  sug- 
gested in  any  part  of  the  Work  should  appear  presumptuous. 
Your  Lordship,  and  still  more  the  Public,  who  might  be 
more  forward  than  Your  Lordship  in  charging  the  Author 
with  presumption,  will  have  the  candour  to  recollect,  that 
it  was  offered,  not  to  the  learned  Bishop  of  Exeter,  but  to 
an  unknown,  and  even  an  imaginary  Preceptor. 

"Under  these  circumstances,  Your  Lordship  will  perhaps 
have  the  goodness  to  accept  the  Dedication  of  these  sHght 
Volumes,  not  as  arrogantly  pointing  out  duties  to  the  dis- 
charge of  which  you  are  so  competent,  but  as  a  mark  of  the 
respect  and  esteem  with  which  I  have  the  honour  to  be, 
"  My  Lord, 
"  Your  Lordship's  most  obedient  and  most 
"  faithful  servant, 

"  The  Author. 

"April  2,  1805." 

In  the  Preface  to  the  first  edition,  the  author  apologizes  for  her 
presumption  in  offering  these  hints:  "  If  we  were  to  enquire  what  is, 
even  at  the  present  critical  period,  one  of  the  most  momentous 
concerns  which  can  engage  the  attention  of  an  Englishman,  who 
feels  for  his  country  like  a  patriot,  and  for  his  posterity  like  a  father; 
what  is  that  object  of  which  the  importance  is  not  bounded  by  the 
shores  of  the  British  Islands  nor  limited  by  our  colonial  possessions; 
— with  which,  in  its  consequences,  the  interests,  not  only  of  all 
Europe,  but  of  the  whole  civilized  world,  may  hereafter  be  in  some 
measure  implicated; — what  Briton  would  hesitate  to  reply.  The 
Education  of  the  Princess  Charlotte  of  Wales? 

"After  this  frank  confession  of  the  unspeakable  importance  of 
the  subject  in  view,  it  is  no  wonder  if  the  extreme  difficulty,  as 
well  as  delicacy  of  the  present  undertaking,  is  acknowledged  to  1  e 


144  Dedications 


sensibly  felt  by  the  Author."  Another  paragraph  is  suggestive 
of  the  state  of  "female  education"  at  the  period:  "Had  the  Royal 
Pupil  been  a  Prince,  these  Hints  would  never  have  been  obtruded 
on  the  world,  as  it  would  then  have  been  naturally  assumed,  that 
the  established  plan  usually  adopted  in  such  cases  would  have  been 
pursued.  Nor  does  the  Author  presume,  in  the  present  instance, 
to  insinuate  a  suspicion,  that  there  will  be  any  want  of  a  large  and 
liberal  scope  in  the  projected  system,  or  to  intimate  an  apprehen- 
sion that  the  course  of  study  will  be  adapted  to  the  sex,  rather 
than  to  the  circumstances  of  the  Princess."  Hannah  More  prob- 
ably did  cherish  a  little  well-grounded  apprehension  that  the 
Princess's  sex  might  be  regarded  as  a  bar  to  a  liberal  education. 

Controversial  Tracts  on  Christianity  and  Mohammedanism. 
By  the  Late  Rev.  Henry  Martyn  .  .  .  Translated  and 
Explained.     By  The  Rev.  Samuel  Lee.     1824. 

"To  the  Right  Honourable,  the  Earl  of  Liverpool,  K.G., 
first  lord  of  his  majesty's  treasury,  etc.,  etc. 

"This  attempt  to  develop  and  refute  the  religious  opin- 
ions of  the  Mohammedans  of  Persia,  as  a  public  acknowl- 
edgment of  a  grant  of  one  hundred  pounds  per  annum,  made 
from  his  majesty's  treasury,  for  the  purpose  of  enabling  the 
Arabic  Professor  of  this  university  to  deliver  a  public  course 
of  Arabic  and  Hebrew  Lectures  annually,  is  most  respect- 
fully inscribed  by  his  Lordship's  most  obedient  and  obliged 
humble  servant,  the  translator  and  author." 

Lee  was  Professor  of  Arabic  at  Cambridge. 

Lectures  on  the  Philosophy  of  the  Mosaic  Record  of  Crea- 
tion, Delivered  in  the  Chapel  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin. 
By  James  Kennedy.     1827. 

"To  the  Right  Honorable  Charles  Kendal  Bushe,  Chief 
Justice  of  the  Court  of  King's  Bench  in  Ireland,  the  fol- 
lowing discourses  are  inscribed,  as  a  slight  tribute  of  esteem 
and  gratitude :  that  paid  to  accomplishments,  which  dignify 
the  relations  of  public  in  the  same  measure  that  they  adorn 


To  Dignitaries  of  Church  and  State    145 


those  of  private  life;  this  excited  by  attentions,  which  to 
the  labourer  in  literature  are  always  acceptable,  more 
especially  when  bestowed  in  the  like  spirit  that  they  are 
received,  without  ostentation  on  the  one  hand,  or  compro- 
mise of  feeling  on  the  other." 

History  of  the  War  in  the  Peninsula  and  in  the  South  of 
France.     By  Sir  William  F,  P.  Napier.     1 828-1 840. 

"To  Field  Marshal  the  Duke  of  Wellington: 
"This  History  I  dedicate  to  your  Grace  because  I  have 
served  long  enough  under  your  command  to  feel  why  the 
soldiers  of  the  tenth  legion  were  attached  to  Csesar." 

Life  and  Services  of  Horatio  Viscount  Nelson.     By  James 
Stanier  Clarke  and  John  M 'Arthur,     1840. 

"To  Sir  Thomas  Masterman  Hardy,  Bt.G.C.B.,  Vice- 
Admiral  of  the  Blue;  and  Governor  of  Greenwich  Hospital. 

"Sir, 

"The  world  will  at  once  understand  the  propriety  of 
prefacing  your  name  to  a  Life  of  Nelson:  as  it  was  almost 
the  last  word  he  uttered  when  passing  into  a  glorious  immor- 
tality, so  will  it  be  the  first  in  the  recollection  of  every 
Briton,  in  association  with  his  heroic  history. 

"It  is  therefore.  Sir,  a  source  of  the  highest  gratification, 
to  be  permitted  the  honour  of  dedicating  to  You  this  authen- 
tic memoir  of  your  illustrious  Companion:  and,  praying 
that  you  may,  during  many  added  years,  enjoy  the  proud 
reflection  of  having  been  the  chosen  Friend  of  him  whose 
name  is  England's  pride,  whose  example  her  shield  and 
strength, 

"We  remain,  Sir, 

"Your  obliged  and  faithful  servants, 

"The  Publishers." 


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Hellenics.     By  Walter  Savage  Landor.     1847. 

"To  Pope  Pius  IX.  Never  until  now,  most  holy  father! 
did  I  hope  or  desire  to  offer  my  homage  to  any  potentate 
on  earth;  and  I  now  offer  it  only  to  the  highest  of  them  all. 

"There  was  a  time  when  the  cultivators  of  literature  were 
permitted  and  expected  to  bring  the  fruit  of  their  labour 
to  the  Vatican.  Not  only  was  incense  welcome  there,  but 
even  the  humblest  produce  of  the  poorest  soil.  '  Verbenam, 
pueri,  ponite  thuraque. ' 

"If  those  better  days  are  returning,  without  what  was 
bad  or  exceptionable  in  them,  the  glory  is  due  entirely  to 
your  Holiness.  You  have  restored  to  Italy  hope  and  hap- 
piness; to  the  rest  of  the  world  hope  only.  But  a  single 
word  from  your  prophetic  lips,  a  single  motion  of  your  earth- 
embracing  arm,  will  overturn  the  firmest  seats  of  iniquity 
and  oppression.  The  word  must  be  spoken;  the  arm  must 
wave.  What  do  we  see  before  us?  If  we  take  the  best 
of  rulers  under  our  survey,  we  find  selfishness  and  frivolity: 
if  we  extend  the  view,  ingratitude,  disregard  of  honour, 
contempt  of  honesty,  breach  of  promise:  one  step  yet 
beyond,  and  there  is  cold  blooded  idiocy,  stabbing  the 
nobles  at  home,  spurning  the  people  everywhere,  and  void- 
ing its  corrosive  slaver  in  tlie  fair  face  of  Italy.  It  is 
better  to  look  no  farther,  else  our  eyes  must  be  riveted  on 
frozen  seas  of  blood  superfused  with  blood  fresh  flowing. 
The  same  ferocious  animal  leaves  the  impression  of  its 
broad  and  heavy  foot  on  the  snow  of  the  Arctic  circle  and 
of  the  Caucasus.  And  is  this  indeed  all  that  Europe  has 
brought  forth,  after  such  long  and  painful  throes?  Has 
she  endured  her  Marats,  her  Robespierres,  her  Buonapartes, 
for  this?  God  inflicted  on  the  latter  of  these  wretches  his 
two  greatest  curses:  uncontrolled  power  and  perverted 
intellect,  and  they  were  twisted  together  to  make  a  scourge 
for  the  nation  which  revelled  in  every  crime,  but  above  all 
in  cruelty.     It  was  insufficient.     She  is  now  undergoing 


To  Dignitaries  of  Church  and  State    147 


from  a  weaker  hand  a  more  ignominious  punishment, 
pursued  by  the  derision  of  Europe.  To  save  her  honour, 
she  pretended  to  admire  the  courage  that  decimated  her 
children:  to  save  her  honour,  she  now  pretends  to  admire 
the  wisdom  that  imprisons  them.  Cunning  is  not  wisdom; 
prevarication  is  not  policy;  and  (novel  as  the  notion  is,  it 
is  equally  true)  armies  are  not  strength :  Acre  and  Waterloo 
show  it,  and  the  flames  of  the  Kremlin,  and  the  solitudes 
of  Fontainebleau.  One  honest  man,  one  wise  man,  one 
peaceful  man,  commands  a  hundred  millions,  without  a 
baton  and  without  a  charger.  He  wants  no  fortress  to 
protect  him:  he  stands  higher  than  any  citadel  can  raise 
him,  brightly  conspicuous  to  the  most  distant  nations, 
God's  servant  by  election,  God's  image  by  beneficence. 

"Walter  Savage  Landor." 

Westward  Ho.     By  Charles  Kingsley.     1855. 

"To  the  Rajah  Sir  James  Brooke,  K.C.B.,  and  George 
Augustus  Selwyn,  D.D.,  bishop  of  New  Zealand,  this  book 
is  dedicated  by  one  who  (unknown  to  them)  has  no  other 
method  of  expressing  his  admiration  and  reverence  for 
their  characters. 

"That  type  of  English  virtue,  at  once  manful  and  godly, 
practical  and  enthusiastic,  prudent  and  self-sacrificing, 
which  he  has  tried  to  depict  in  these  pages,  they  have 
exhibited  in  a  form  even  purer  and  more  heroic  than  that 
in  which  he  has  drest  it,  and  than  that  in  which  it  was 
exhibited  by  the  worthies  whom  Elizabeth,  without  dis- 
tinction of  rank  or  age,  gathered  round  her  in  the  ever 
glorious  wars  of  her  great  reign.  C.  K. 

"Feb.,  1855." 

Life  and  Correspondence  of  James  Iredell.     By  Griffith  J. 
McRee.     1857. 

"In  memory  of  the  Honorable  James  Iredell,  late  Gover- 
nor of  the  State  of  North  Carolina,  senator  of  the  United 


148  Dedications 


States,  etc.  etc.,  this  record  of  a  father,  whose  genius  he 
inherited,  and  whose  virtues  he  emulated;  in  memory  of 
him  to  whose  parental  care  I  am  indebted  for  the  greatest 
of  all  blessings — an  admirable  wife,  this  voltmie  is  affec- 
tionately inscribed  by 

"Griffith  J.  McRee." 

Ti-Ping  Tien-Kwoh;  The  History  of  the  Ti-Ping  Revolu- 
tion, Including  a  Narrative  of  the  Author's  Personal 
Adventures.     By  Lin-le.     1866. 

"To  Le-Sin-Cheng,  the  Chung-Wang 

'Faithful  Prince' 
Commander-in-chief  of  the  Ti-ping  forces, 
This  work  is  dedicated 

if  he  be  living; 
and  if  not,  to  his  memory." 

Spare  Hours.     By  John  Brown,  M.D.     1866. 

"The  author  dedicates  this  volume  to  the  memory  of 
Abraham  Lincoln,  'Who  through  faith  subdued  kingdoms 
and  wrought  righteousness. '  " 

Dr.  Brown  dedicated  Health,  Five  Lay  Sermons  to  Working  People, 
"to  the  memory  of  the  Reverend  James  Trench,  the  heart  and  soul 
of  the  Canongate  Mission,  who,  while  he  preached  a  pure  and 
fervent  gospel  to  its  heathens,  taught  them  also  and  therefore  to 
respect  and  save  their  health,  and  was  the  Originator  and  Keeper 
of  their  Liberty  and  Penny  Bank,  as  well  as  their  Minister." 

Palseontological  Memoirs  and  Notes  of  the  Late  H(ugh) 
F  (alconer ) .  Compiled  and  Edited  by  Charles  Murchison. 
1868. 

"To  Colonel  Sir  Proby  T.  Cautley,  K.C.B.,  Member  of 
the  Council  of  India,  this  volume,  embracing  the  results  of 
those  studies  of  his  departed  friends  and  colleagues  on  the 


To  Dignitaries  of  Church  and  State    149 


fossil  fauna  of  the  Sewalik  Hills,  which  obtained  for  them 
worldwide  reputation  in  science,  is  dedicated  by 

"The  Author." 

Harold.     By  Alfred,  Lord  Tennyson.     1876. 

"To     his    Excellency 

"the     right    HON.     LORD     LYTTON, 

"  Viceroy  and  Governor-General  of  India. 
"My  dear  Lord  Lytton, — After  old-world  records — 
such  as  the  Bayeux  tapestry  and  the  Roman  de  Rou, — • 
Edward  Freeman's  History  of  the  Norman  Conquest,  and 
your  father's  Historical  Romance  treating  of  the  same  tim^es, 
have  been  mainly  helpful  to  me  in  writing  this  Drama. 
Your  father  dedicated  his  'Harold'  to  my  father's  brother; 
allow  me  to  dedicate  my  '  Harold '  to  yourself. 

"A.  Tennyson ^" 

In  1846,  Tennyson  was  bitterly  attacked  by  Lytton  Bulwer, 
because  Peel  had  placed  him  on  the  Pension  list.  Tennyson  replied 
by  two  poems,  published  in  Punch — The  New  Timon  and  the  Poets, 
and  After -thought.  Of  these  poems  he  afterwards  wrote:  "I  never 
wrote  a  line  against  anyone  but  Sir  Edward  Lytton  Bulwer.  His 
lines  did  not  move  me  to  do  so.  But  at  the  very  time  he  was 
writing  or  had  written  these  he  was  visiting  my  cousins,  the 
d'Eyncourts,  and  said  to  them,  'How  much  I  should  like  to  know 
your  Cousin  Alfred';  and  I,  going  in  to  a  book-club  in  the  town 
where  I  was  then  living,  found  a  newspaper  turned  up  and  folded 
so  that  I  could  not  miss,  'See  how  Sir  Edward  tickles  up  the  poet- 
asters and  their  patrons.'  The  stupid  insignificant  paper,  and  the 
purpose  with  which  it  had  been  set  before  me,  provoked  me." 
Tennyson  added:  "I  never  sent  my  lines  to  Punch.  John  Forster 
did.  They  were  too  bitter.  I  do  not  think  that  I  should  ever 
have  published  them." 

Lord  Lytton  acknowledged  very  cordially  the  dedication  of 
Harold  (letter  to  Tennyson,  January  19,  1877):  "Memories  the 
tenderest  and  most  cherished  of  my  life  are  strangely  mingled  with 
the  hope  your  generosity  has  sanctioned,  that  I  may  live  hereafter 
on  your  pages,  associated  with  the  name  of  their  great  author,  to 
whom  in  common  with  all  our  countrymen,  I  already  owe  so  much; 


150  Dedications 


and  with  that  of  my  dear  father,  to  whom  I  owe  life  itself,  and  all 
great  things  in  life,  nor  least  of  all  my  share  in  the  valued  tribute 
so  generously  offered  to  his  memory  by  England's  greatest  living 
Poet.  In  his  name  and  for  his  sake,  I  thank  you  no  less  warmly 
than  on  my  own  behalf." 

The  Origin  of  the  World.    By  John  William  Dawson.     1877. 

"To  his  excellency,  the  Right  Honourable,  the  Earl  of 
Dufferin,  K.P.,  K.C.B.,  etc.,  Governor-general  of  Canada; 
this  work  is  respectfully  dedicated,  as  a  slight  tribute  of 
esteem  to  one  who  graces  the  highest  position  in  the  do- 
minion of  Canada  by  his  eminent  personal  qualities,  his 
reputation  as  a  statesman  and  an  author,  and  his  kind  and 
enlightened  patronage  of  education,  literature,  and  science." 

Becket.     By  Alfred,  Lord  Tennyson.     1884. 

"To  the  Lord  Chancellor, 
"the  right  honourable  earl  of  selborne 

"My  dear  Selborne, — To  you,  the  honoured  Chancellor 
of  our  own  day,  I  dedicate  this  dramatic  memorial  of  your 
great  predecessor; — which,  altho'  not  intended  in  its  pre- 
sent form  to  meet  the  exigencies  of  our  modern  theatre, 
has  nevertheless — for  so  you  have  assured  me — won  your 

approbation. 

"Ever  yours, 

"Tennyson.' 

Critical  Exposition  of  the  "Jihad."     By  Moulavi  Cheragh 

Ali.     C.  1885  (?). 

"To  the  honorable  Syed  Ahmed  Khan  Bahadur,  C.  S.  I., 
this  book  is,  without  even  asking  permission,  and  wholly 
without  his  knowledge,  dedicated,  as  a  slight  but  sincere 
testimony  of  admiration  for  his  long  and  various  services 
in  the  cause  of  Islam  and  in  respect  of  his  religious  and  social 
reforms  among  the  Moslems  of  India,  and  of  gratitude  for 
much  personal  kindness  and  friendship,  by 

"The  Author." 


To  Dignitaries  of  Church  and  State    151 


The  Old  Merchants  of  New  York  City.     By  Walter  Barrett 
(J.  A.  Scoville).     1885. 

"To  the  memory  of  John  Jacob  Astor,  one  of  the  first 
and  most  prosperous  merchants  of  New  York  City,  this 
volume  is  dedicated." 

Historical  Memorials  of  Canterbury.    By  Arthur  P.  Stanley, 
D.D.     (1887.) 

"To  the  venerable  Benjamin  Harrison,  Archdeacon  of 
Maidstone  and  Canon  of  Canterbury,  in  grateful  remem- 
brance of  much  kindness,  these  slight  memorials  of  the  city 
and  cathedral  which  he  has  so  faithfully  served  are  inscribed 
with  sincere  respect  by  the  author." 

Dr.  Muhlenberg.     By  William  Wilberforce  Newton,  D.D. 
1890. 

"To  the  Rt.  Rev.  Henry  C.  Potter,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  who, 
in  having  before  him  the  large-hearted  standards  of  his 
venerated  Father,  recognizes  the  fact  that  in  the  present 
constructive  age  the  loyal  Churchman  is  beset  with  prob- 
lems which,  in  their  complexity,  the  Fathers  of  yesterday 
never  knew,  this  Volume  is  dedicated  with  the  affection  of 
a  friendship  which  has  deepened  with  time — the  sole  test 
of  life  as  it  is  of  truth — in  the  hope  that  he  may  live  to  see 
the  dream  of  the  saintly  Muhlenberg  realized,  in  the  true 
'emancipation  of  the  Episcopate,'  and  in  the  veritable 
' Unsectarizing  of  the  Church.'  " 

Sunrise  Stories :  A  Glance  at  the  Literature  of  Japan.     By 
Roger  Riordan  and  Tozo  Takayanagi.     1896. 

"Dedicated  to  his  excellency  S.  Kurino,  His  Imperial 
Japanese  Majesty's  Envoy  Extraordinary  and  Minister 
Plenipotentiary  to  the  United  States  of  America,  by  the 
authors." 


152  Dedications 


Essai  sur  les  Donnees  Immediates  de  la  Conscience      By- 
Henri  Bergson.     1898. 

"A  Monsieur  Jules  Lachelier,  membre  de  I'institut, 
inspecteur  general  de  Tinstruction  publique,  honimage 
respectueux." 

The  Life  of  the  Spirit.     By  Hamilton  Wright  Mabie.     1898. 

"To  George  A.  Gordon: 

"The  race  must  become  partner  in  the  moral  enterprise, 
fellow-worker  with  the  universe  at  its  ethical  task,  if  its 
heart  of  rhythm  and  soul  of  fire  are  to  stand  fully  revealed." 

St.  Thomas  of  Canterbury:  His  Death  and  Miracles.     By 
Edwin  A.  Abbott.     1898. 

"To  the  memory  of  Thomas,  once  Archbishop  of  Canter- 
bury, now  venerated  by  some  as  saint  and  martyr,  by 
others  admired  as  a  hero,  by  some  few  vilified  as  a  narrow 
ecclesiastic,  but  deserving  to  be  studied  by  all,  whether 
friends,  critics,  or  enemies,  as  a  conspicuous  proof  that  the 
spirit  may  be  then  first  manifested  in  its  full  power  when 
defeat  and  corruption  have  triumphed  over  the  flesh." 

The  World  Beautiful.     Third  Series.     By  Lilian  Whiting. 
1898. 

"To  Rev.  E.  Winchester  Donald,  D.D.,  Rector  of  Trinity 
Church,  whose  sympathetic  and  uplifting  pastorate  con- 
tinues the  noble  traditions  of  his  parish ;  who,  as  priest  and 
friend  and  citizen,  is  enshrined  in  our  hearts,  these  pages 
are  gratefully  dedicated  by  Lilian  Whiting." 

The  first  volume  of  The  World  Beautiful  is  dedicated  to  the 
memory  of  PhiUips  Brooks;  and  the  same  author's  Outlook  Beau- 
tiful, to  Archdeacon  Wilberforce  of  Westminster  Abbey. 


To  Dignitaries  of  Church  and  State    153 


Mornings  in  the  College  Chapel.  By  Francis  Greenwood 
Peabody,  Professor  of  Christian  Morals  in  Harvard 
University.     1899. 

"To  my  beloved  and  revered  colleagues,  the  preachers 
to  the  university,  and  to  the  sacred  memory  of  Phillips 
Brooks,  of  the  first  staff  of  preachers,  who  being  dead  yet 
speaketh  among  us,  in  grateftd  recollection  of  happy  as- 
sociation in  the  service  of  Christ  and  the  Church." 

John  Knox.     By  Marion  Harland.     1900. 

"To  my  friend  and  pastor,  Reverend  George  Alexander, 
D.D.,  whose  Scottish  ancestors,  for  three  hundred  years, 
bravely  kept  the  Faith  he  holds  and  teaches,  this  Book, 
written  with  a  willing  hand  and  a  full  heart,  in  the  Scotland 
secured  to  the  Protestant  Church  by  John  Knox,  is  affec- 
tionately dedicated. 

"Marion  Harland." 

The  East  of  To-day  and  To-morrow.  By  Henry  Codman 
Potter,  Late  Bishop  of  New  York.     1902. 

"To  John  Pierpont  Morgan,  financier,  philanthropist, 
friend:  to  whose  munificence  these  opportunities  for  ob- 
servation in  the  East  were  owing,  and  whose  constructive 
genius,  which  upbuilds  and  never  pulls  down,  has  indicated 
the  tasks  which  await  Western  civilization  in  Eastern 
fields." 

A  dedication  to  Mr.  Morgan  in  a  very  different  spirit  is  that  of 
Roadtown,  by  Edgar  Chambers  (1910): 

"This  book  is  dedicated  to  J.  Pierpont  Morgan,  a  straight  player 
of  a  crooked  game,  who,  it  is  said,  played  his  usual  r61e  in  the  Wall 
Street  Manipulations  of  the  Central  Railroad  of  Georgia  Securities, 
which  adroitly  and  legally  absorbed  the  small  savings  and  happi- 
ness of  many  unsophisticated  investors — an  action  which,  in  my 
case  at  least,  proved  to  be  a  blessing  in  disguise,  for  it  made  me 
suffer  first  and  then  made  me  think.  Hence  the  gratitude  and 
consequent  dedication  to  Mr.  Morgan  for  starting  the  train  of 


154  Dedications 


Roadtown,  a  plan  for  side-stepping  the  crooked  game  as  now 
played  so  that  henceforth  whosoever  will  may  become  a  straight 
player  of  a  straight  game." 

God  and  Music.     By  John  Harrington  Edwards.     1903. 

"To  Henry  Van  Dyke,  D.D.,  L.L.D.,  a  master  workman 
in  many  fields,  and  in  all  for  the  Master." 

Central  Asia  and  Thibet  towards  the  Holy  City  of  Lassa. 
By  Sven  Hedin.     1903. 

"The  English  and  American  editions  of  this  work  are 
dedicated  by  special  permission  to  his  Excellency  Lord 
Curzon  of  Kedleston,  Viceroy  of  India,  with  gratitude  and 
admiration  by  the  Author." 

History  of  Andrew  Jackson.     By  Augustus  C.  Buell.     1904. 

"To  the  embodiment  in  our  times  of  the  Jacksonian 
spirit,  Theodore  Roosevelt,  the  author  respectfully  dedicates 
these  volumes." 

The  Virginian.     By  Owen  Wister.     1904. 

"To  Theodore  Roosevelt: 

"Some  of  these  pages  you  have  seen,  some  you  have 
praised,  one  stands  new- written  because  you  blamed  it; 
and  all,  my  dear  critic,  beg  leave  to  remind  you  of  their 
author's  changeless  admiration." 

The  Shade  of  the  Balkans.     By  Pencho  SlaveikofE,  Henry 
Bernard  and  Dr.  R.  J.  Pillon.     1904. 

"to  dr.  strossmayer,  bishop  of  djakovo." 

"Great  Bishop,  who  didst  dedicate  thy  day 
To  God  and  to  the  Godliness  of  man, 
Who  wast  not  weary  thro'  the  Dark  to  scan 
For  the  dim  promise  of  a  golden  ray — 


To  Dignitaries  of  Church  and  State    155 


Thy  soul  was  stricken  when  the  Sultan's  sway 
These  children  of  the  mountains  overran, 
And  from  Bulgaria's  soul  't  was  thine  to  fan 

What  of  old  music  in  the  Darkness  lay. 

To  thee  we  dedicate  this  book  of  grief 

And  gladness  which  informed  a  people's  heart 

Saved  from  those  centuries  that  were  too  brief 
To  cast  upon  them  Time's  victorious  dart, 

And  from  these  gloomy  Days  of  unbelief 
Whence  all  delight  of  music  doth  depart." 

John  Knox:  The  Hero  of  the  Scottish  Reformation.    By 
Henry  Cowan.     1905. 

"To  the  Right  Honourable  James  Alexander  Campbell, 
P.C,  M.P.,  LL.D.,  I  dedicate  this  volume  in  grateful 
remembrance  of  many  words  of  wise  counsel  and  many 
acts  of  thoughtful  kindness  received  from  him  during 
thirty  years  of  friendship;  and  as  a  sincere  tribute  to  his 
private  worth  and  public  life-work,  as  a  high-minded  and 
honourable  statesman,  a  loyal  and  devoted  churchman,  an 
effective  writer  and  speaker  on  religious  and  ecclesiastical 
subjects,  a  liberal  benefactor  of  the  universities  which  he 
has  long  represented  in  Parliament,  and  a  generous  friend 
of  missionary  and  philanthropic  enterprise." 

The  College  Man  and  the  College  Woman.     By  Wm.  De 
Witt  Hyde.     1906. 

"To  Theodore  Roosevelt,  who  as  a  legislator,  commis- 
sioner, secretary,  colonel,  author,  governor,  vice-president, 
president  and  peacemaker,  has  wrought  in  the  world  what 
he  was  taught  in  college  and  shown  the  power  for  good  a 
college  man  can  be." 

Russia:  Travels  and  Studies.     By  Annette  M.  B.  Meakin. 
1906. 

"Dedicated  to  His  Excellency  Prince  M.  Khilkoff, 
Minister  of  Ways  and  Communications  at  St.  Petersburg." 


156  Dedications 


Days  Off.     By  Henry  Van  Dyke.     1907. 

'To  my  friend  and  neighbour,  Grover  Cleveland,  whose 
years  of  great  work  as  a  statesman  have  been  cheered  by 
days  of  good  play  as  a  fisherman,  this  book  is  dedicated 
with  warm  and  deep  regards. 
"Avalon,  July  loth,  1907. 

The  American  Idea.     By  Lydia  Eangsmill  Commander. 
1907. 

"This  book — a  sincere  study  of  a  grave  social  problem — 
is  dedicated  to  Theodore  Roosevelt,  who  first  aroused  the 
Nation  to  the  danger  of  '  race  suicide, '  and  who  has  been 
the  only  American  President  to  recognize  officially  the 
supreme  importance  of  those  questions  that  directly  concern 
the  family  and  the  home." 

When  Men  Grew  Tall,  or  the  Story  of  Andrew  Jackson. 
By  Alfred  Henry  Lewis.     1907. 

"To  Theodore  Roosevelt,  that  man  of  the  public  for 
whom  I  have  most  regard  and  from  whose  future  I  as  an 
American  most  hope,  this  volume  is  dedicated." 

Robert  Fulton  and  the  Clermont.    By  Alice  Crary  Sutcliffe. 
1909. 

"This  volume  is  affectionately  dedicated  to  my  father,  the 
Reverend  Robert  Fulton  Crary,  D.D.  (eldest  grandson  of 
Robert  Fulton) ,  for  forty  years  rector  of  the  Church  of  the 
Holy  Comforter,  Poughkeepsie,  New  York,  whose  services 
throughout  life,  no  less  devoted  than  those  of  his  illustrious 
ancestor,  have  been  in  the  great  navy  of  the  Church  of  God." 

The  Melting  Pot.     By  Israel  Zangwill.     1910. 

"To  Theodore  Roosevelt,  in  respectful  recognition  of  his 
strenuous  struggle  against  the  forces  that  threaten  to  ship- 


To  Dignitaries  of  Church  and  State    157 

wreck  the  Great  Republic,  which  carries  Mankind  and  its 
Fortunes,  this  play,  is,  by  his  kind  permission,  cordially 
dedicated." 

The  Gift  of  Sleep.     By  Bolton  Hall.     191 1. 

"To  the  memory  of  the  Reverend  Dr.  John  Hall,  who 
preached  from  the  word  what  I  teach  from  the  world." 

The  Efficient  Life.     By  Luther  H.  Gulick.     191 1. 

"To  Theodore  Roosevelt,  who  sometimes  leads  the 
Simple  Life,  who  often  leads  the  Strenuous  Life,  but  who 
always  leads  the  Efficient  Life." 

John  Ranon.     By  Emerson  Hough. 

"To  Woodrow  Wilson:  one  of  the  leaders  in  the  third 
war  of  American  Independence." 

The  Bishop's  Shadow.     By  I.  T.  Thurston. 

"To  the  beautiful  memory  of  Phillips  Brooks." 

American  Traits.     By  Hugo  Miinsterberg. 

"To  Frederick  William  Holls,  member  of  the  Permanent 
Court  of  Arbitration  at  The  Hague,  ideal  type  of  the 
American  of  German  descent." 


VI 
Uo  Countries,  States,  Cities,  anC)  tbeir  Inbabitants 


159 


VI 
Zo  Countries,  States,  Cities,  ant)  tbefr  llnbabitants 

A  Collection  of  Scotch  Proverbs.     By  Allan  Ramsay.     1736. 

"Dedicated  to  the  Tenantry  of  Scotland,  farmers  of  the 
Dales,  and  Storemasters  of  the  Hills. 

"Worthy  Friends, — 

"The  following  hoard  o'  Wise  Sayings,  an'  observations 
o'  our  forefathers,  which  hae  been  gathering  through  mony 
bygane  ages,  I  hae  collected  wi'  great  care,  an'  restored  to 
their  proper  sense,  which  had  been  frequently  tint  by 
publishers  that  didna  understand  our  landwart  language, 
particularly  a  late  large  book  o'  them,  fu'  o'  errors,  in  a 
stile  neither  Scots  nor  English.  Having  set  them  to  rights, 
I  coudna  think  them  better  bestowed  than  to  dedicate  them 
to  you  wha  best  ken  their  meaning  moral  use,  pith  an' 
beauty.  Some  amang  the  gentle  vulgar,  that  are  mair 
nice  than  wise,  may  startle  at  the  broadness,  or  (as  they 
name  it)  coarse  expressions.  But  that  is  nae  worth  our 
tenting :  a  brave  man  can  be  as  meritorious  in  hodden-gray 
as  in  velvet.  .  .  . 

"Since  dedicators  scantily  deserve  that  name,  when 
they  dinna  gar  the  praises  o'  their  patrons  flow  freely 
through  their  propine,  I  should  be  reckoned  ane  o'  little 
havins  to  be  jiim  in  that  article,  when  I  hae  sic  guid  ground 
to  work  upon,  an'  leal  verity  to  keep  me  frae  being  thought 
a  fleetcher;  wherefore,  since  lacking  breeds  laziness,  an' 
praises  breed  pith,  I  scruple  not  to  tell  you  that  you  are  the 
props  o'  the  nation's  profit.     It  is  you  that  are  the  store- 

161 


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keepers  o'  Heaven's  bountiths.  ...  I  could  rin  on  wi'  a 
thousand  articles  to  your  commendation,  were  they  not 
clear  to  ilka  ane  whase  saul  is  not  sand-blind  or  purfled 
wi'  pride.  ...  I  shall  conclude  wi'  wishing  you  the  happy 
seed-time  an'  blythe  kirn,  the  plentyfu'  increase  o'  your 
nowt  an'  sheep,  laiden  rigs  an'  crouded  heights,  generous 
an'  kindly  lairds,  an'  rowth  to  pay  their  rents;  peace  an' 
love  in  your  families,  wi'  a  numerous,  bonny,  an'  stout 
affspring  to  succeed  yoursells,  wi'  o'ercome  to  serve  their 
king  an'  country,  by  sea  an'  land,  wi'  the  spirit  o'  their 
bauld  forbears,  wha  never  fail'd  to  prove  as  a  brazen  dike, 
in  defence  o'  their  nation's  independent  honoturs  an'  ancient 
renown. 

"I  am,  Men  an'  Brethren, 

"Your  affectionate  friend  an'  humble  servant, 

"Allan  Ramsay. 

"Edinburgh,  Oct.  15,  1736." 

Geography  made  Easy:  Being  an  Abridgement  of  the 
American  Geography.  By  Jedediah  Morse,  A.M., 
Minister  of  the  Congregation  in  Charlestown,  near 
Boston.     1 79 1. 

"To  the  Young  Masters  and  Misses  throughout  the 
United  States,  the  following  Easy  Introduction  to  the  use- 
ful and  entertaining  Science  of  Geography  compiled  par- 
ticularly for  their  Use  is  dedicated,  with  his  warmest  Wishes 
for  their  early  Improvement  in  every  thing  that  shall  make 
them  truly  happy,  by  their  sincere  Friend,  Jedediah  Morse." 

Impressions  of  America  during  the  Years  1833,  1834,  and 
1835.     By  Tyrone  Power.     1836. 

"Dedication  to  the  British  public: 

"Most  persons  have  a  patron,  from  whose  power  and 
influence  they  have  derived  support,  and  of  whose  favour 
they  feel  proud. 


i 


To  Countries,  States,  Cities  163 


"I  cannot  claim  to  be  of  the  few  who  are  above  this  adven- 
titious sort  of  aid,  self-raised,  and  self-sustained;  on  the 
contrary,  I  have  a  patron,  the  only  one  I  ever  sought,  but 
whose  favour  has  well  repaid  my  pains  of  solicitation. 

"The  patron  I  allude  to  is  yourself,  my  Public,  much 
courted,  much  abused,  and  commonly  accused  of  being 
either  coldly  neglectful  or  capriciously  forgetful  of  all  sort 
of  merit.  To  me  at  least  you  have  proved  most  kind,  and 
hitherto  most  constant.  ...  As  an  actor,  when  managers 
have  appeared  indifferent,  or  critics  unkind,  and  my  hopes 
have  sunk  within  me,  I  have  turned  to  your  cheering 
plaudits,  and  found  in  them  support  for  the  present  and 
encouragement  for  the  future.  .  .  . 

"In  presenting  this  offering  to  you,  I  am  aware  at  this 
the  ninth  hour,  that  it  abounds  in  errors;  .  .  .  but  you 
also  know  how  my  time  has  been  employed  since  my  return 
to  you.  Whilst  you  have  nightly  laughed  with  me  at  the 
playhouse,  I  have  nightly  had  the  devil  (Printer's  devil!) 
waiting  for  a  contribution  at  home,  and  he  is  an  imp  impor- 
tunate and  insatiable."  He  begs  the  public  in  the  end  to 
accept  his  "crude  publication"  as  the  best  commodity  he 
has  to  lay  at  their  feet. 

"Bolton  Street,  May  Fair, 
"Dec.  23rd,  1835." 

Maltravers.     By  Lord  Lytton.     1837. 

"To  the  Great  German  people,  a  race  of  thinkers  and  of 
critics,  a  foreign  but  familiar  audience,  profound  in  judg- 
ment, candid  in  reproof,  generous  in  appreciation,  this  work 
is  dedicated  by  an  English  author." 

American  Notes.     By  Charles  Dickens.     1842. 

"  I  dedicate  this  book  to  those  friends  of  mine  in  America 
who,  giving  me  a  welcome  I  must  ever  gratefully  and 
proudly  remember,  left  my  judgment  free,  and  who,  loving 


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their  country,  can  bear  the  truth,  when  it  is  told  good- 
humouredly,  and  in  a  kind  spirit." 

The  Works  of  James  Fenimore  Cooper.     1859. 

"To  the  American  people  this  illustrated  edition  of  the 

works  of  the  first  American  novelist  is  respectfully  dedicated 

bv  the  publishers. 

"W.  A.  Townsend  &  Co." 

Life  of  Andrew  Jackson.     By  James  Parton.     i860. 

"To  North  Carolina  and  Tennessee,  mother  and  daughter. 
One  gave  Jackson  birth,  the  other  opportunity." 

The  Toilers  of  the  Sea.     By  Victor  Hugo.     1866. 

"I  dedicate  this  book  to  the  rock  of  hospitality  and  of 
liberty,  to  that  nook  of  ancient  Norman  soil  where  dwells 
the  noble  little  nation  of  the  sea:  to  the  Isle  of  Guernsey, 
severe  yet  kind,  my  present  asylum,  my  probable  tomb." 

II  Sacco  di  Roma.     By  Domenico  Orano.     1870. 

"To  the  Comune  of  Rome  of  1870,  restored  to  its  historic 
destiny,  these  volumes,  which  will  illustrate  the  Sack  of 
Rome  in  the  year  1527,  (are  dedicated). 

"Domenico  Orano." 

The  Adventures  of  the  Chevalier  de  la  Salle  and  his  Com- 
panions.    By  John  S.  C.  Abbott.     1875. 

"To  the  inhabitants  of  the  Great  Valley  of  the  West, 
whose  magnificent  realms  La  Salle  and  his  companions 
were  the  first  to  explore,  this  volume  is  respectfully  dedi- 
cated by  John  S.  C.  Abbott." 

Rome  in  the  Memory  and  Imagination  of  the  Middle  Ages. 
By  Arturo  Graf.     1882-1883. 

"To  the  Eternal  City." 


To  Countries,  States,  Cities  165 


The  Secret  of  Death,  and  Collected  Poems.     By  Edwin 
Arnold.     1885. 

"to  AMERICA" 

"Thou  new  Great  Britain!  famous,  free,  and  bright, 
West  of  thy  West  sleepeth  my  ancient  East ; 
Our  sunsets  make  thy  noons :     Daytime  and  Night, 
Meet  in  sweet  morning-promise  on  thy  breast. 

"Fulfil  the  promise,  Queen  of  boundless  lands! 
Where,  as  thine  own,  an  English  singer  ranks. 
I,  who  found  favour  at  thy  sovereign  hands. 

Kiss  them;  and  at  thy  feet  lay  these,  for  thanks." 

In  Ole  Virginia.     By  Thomas  Nelson  Page.     1887. 

"To  my  people,  this  fragmentary  record  of  their  life  is 
dedicated." 

Sir  William  Johnson  and  the  Six  Nations.     By  William 
Elliot  Griffis.     1891. 

"Like  my  friend,  the  late  Judge  John  Sanders,  of  Scotia, 
Schenectady  County,  N.  Y.,  who  took  off  his  hat  when 
meeting  descendants  of  the  heroes  of  Oriskany,  the  blood- 
iest, the  most  stubbornly  contested,  and  perhaps  the  de- 
cisive battle  in  the  War  of  the  American  Revolution,  the 
writer  makes  h  s  bow  to  the  people  of  the  Mohawk  Valley, 
and  to  them,  and  to  the  memory  of  their  brave  ancestors, 
dedicates  this  sketch  of  one  of  the  Makers  of  America." 

John  Winthrop.     By  Joseph  Hopkins  Twichell.     1892. 

"To  the  City  of  Hartford,  where  John  Winthrop's  price- 
less Journal  was  first  printed,  the  Capital  of  the  Common- 
wealth of  which  his  oldest  son  was  eighteen  times  chosen 
governor,  this  volume  is  affectionately  dedicated." 


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The  Life  of  George  Mason.     By  Kate  Mason  Rowland. 
1892. 

"To  Virginia,  the  illustrious,  the  dearly  loved  old  do- 
minion, this  memoir  of  one  of  her  sons  is  dedicated." 

The  Life  and  Times  of  William  Lowndes  Yancey.     By  John 
Witherspoon  DuBose.     1892. 

"Respectfully  inscribed  to  the  American  People." 

Alle  Porte  d'ltalia.     By  Edmondo  de  Amicis.     1893. 

"To  the  town  of  Pinerolo,  the  Gateway  of  Italy,  I  offer 
these  pages  as  a  tribute  of  affection  and  reverence  inspired 
by  the  beauty  of  its  encircling  mountains  and  the  memories 
of  its  noble  patriotism." 

The  Dream  of  Man.     By  William  Watson.     1893. 

"to  LONDON,  MY  HOSTESS" 

"City  that  waitest  to  be  sung, — 

For  whom  no  hand 
To  mighty  strains  the  lyre  hath  strung 

In  all  this  land. 
Though  mightier  theme  the  mightiest  ones 

Sang  not  of  old, 
The  thrice  three  sisters'  Godlike  sons 

With  lips  of  gold, — 
Till  greater  voice  thy  greatness  sing 

In  loftier  times. 
Suffer  an  alien  muse  to  bring  ^ 

Her  votive  rhymes.  {• 

V 

"Yes,  Alien  in  thy  midst  am  I,  y 

Not  of  thy  brood;  v 

The  nursling  of  a  norland  sky  j 

Of  rougher  mood :  ] 


To  Countries,  States,  Cities  167 


To  me,  thy  tarrying  guest,  to  me, 

'Mid  thy  loud  hum., 
Strayed  visions  of  the  moor  or  sea 

Tormenting  come, 
Above  the  thunder  of  the  wheels 

That  hurry  by. 
From  lapping  of  lone  waves  there  steals 

A  far-sent  sigh; 


"And  many  a  dream-reared  mountain  crest 

My  feet  have  trod. 
There  where  thy  Minster  in  the  West 

Gropes  toward  God. 
Yet  from  thy  presence  if  I  go,  , 

By  woodlands  deep 
Or  ocean  fringes,  thou,  I  know, 

Will  haunt  my  sleep ; 
Thy  restless  tides  of  life  will  foam 

Still,  in  my  sight; 
Thy  imperturbable  dark  dome 

Will  crown  my  night. 


"  O  sea  of  living  waves  that  roll 

On  golden  sands. 
Or  break  on  tragic  reef  or  shoal 

'Mid  fatal  lands; 
O  forest  wrought  of  living  leaves 

Some  filled  with  Spring, 
Where  joy  life's  festal  raiment  weaves 

And  all  birds  sing, — 
Some  trampled  in  the  miry  ways, 

Or  whirled  along 
By  fury  of  tempestuous  days, — 

Take  thou  my  song! 


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"For  thou  hast  scorned  not  heretofore 

The  gifts  of  rhyme 
I  dropped  half  faltering  at  thy  door, 

City  sublime; 
And  though  't  is  true  I  am  but  guest 

Within  thy  gate, 
Unto  thy  hands  I  owe  the  best 

Awards  of  fate. 
Imperial  hostess !  thanks  from  me 

To  thee  belong; 
O  living  forest,  living  sea. 

Take  thou  my  song!" 

Brave  Little  Holland  and  What  She  Taught  Us.    By  William 
Elliot  Griffis.     1894. 

"Dedicated  to  that  large  number  of  American  people 
who,  whether  they  know  it  or  not,  have  in  their  veins 
'NederlandscheBlvet.'  " 

Life  of  St.  Francis  of  Assisi.    By  Paul  Sabatier.     1894. 

"To  the  Strasburghers. 

"Friends! 

"At  last  here  is  this  book  which  I  told  you  about  so  long 
ago.  The  result  is  small  indeed  in  relation  to  the  endeavor, 
as  I,  alas,  see  better  than  anyone.  The  widow  of  the  Gospel 
put  only  one  mite  into  the  alms-box  of  the  temple,  but  this 
mite,  they  tell  us,  won  her  Paradise.  Accept  this  mite  that 
I  offer  you  to-day  as  God  accepted  that  of  the  poor  woman, 
looking  not  at  her  offering,  but  at  her  love.  Feci  quod 
potui,  omnia  dedi. 

"Do  not  chide  me  too  severely  for  this  long  delay,  for 
you  are  somewhat  its  cause.  Many  times  a  day  at  Florence, 
at  Assisi,  at  Rome,  I  have  forgotten  the  document  I  had 
to  study.  Something  in  me  seemed  to  have  gone  to  flutter 
at  your  windows,  and  sometimes  they  opened.     One  evening 


To  Countries,  States,  Cities  169 


two  years  ago  at  St.  Damian  I  forgot  myself  and  remained 
long  after  sunset.  An  old  monk  came  to  warn  me  that  the 
sanctuary  was  closed.  'Per  Bacco, '  he  gently  murmured 
as  he  led  me  away  all  ready  to  receive  my  confidences, 
*  sognava  d'amore  o  di  tristitia? '  Well,  yes,  I  was  dreaming 
of  love  and  sadness,  for  I  was  dreaming  of  Strasbourg." 

The  Letters  of  Junius.     Dedication  to  the  English  Nation. 

I  dedicate  to  you  a  Collection  of  Letters,  written  by  one  of 
yourselves  for  the  common  benefit  of  us  all.  They  would 
never  have  grown  to  this  size,  without  your  continued  en- 
couragement and  applause.  To  me  they  originally  owe 
nothing  but  a  healthy,  sanguine  constitution.  Under  your 
care  they  have  thriven.  To  you  they  are  indebted  for 
whatever  strength  or  beauty  they  possess.  When  Kings 
and  Ministers  are  forgotten,  when  the  force  and  direction 
of  personal  satire  is  no  longer  understood,  and  when  meas- 
ures are  felt  only  in  their  remotest  consequences,  this  book 
will,  I  believe,  be  found  to  contain  principles  worthy  to  be 
transmitted  to  posterity.  When  you  leave  the  unimpaired 
hereditary  freehold  to  your  children,  you  do  but  half  your 
duty.  Both  liberty  and  property  are  precarious,  unless 
the  possessors  have  sense  and  spirit  enough  to  defend  them. 
This  is  not  the  language  of  vanity.  If  I  am  a  vain  man, 
my  gratification  lies  within  a  narrow  circle.  I  am  the  sole 
depository  of  my  own  secret,  and  it  shall  perish  with  me. 

If  an  honest,  and,  I  may  truly  affirm,  a  laborious  zeal 
for  the  pubHc  service,  has  given  me  any  weight  in  your 
esteem,  let  me  exhort  and  conjure  you,  never  to  suffer  an 
invasion  of  your  political  constitution,  however  minute  the 
instance  may  appear,  to  pass  by,  without  a  determined, 
persevering  resistance.  One  precedent  creates  another. 
They  soon  accumulate,  and  constitute  law.  What  yester- 
day was  fact,  to-day  is  doctrine.  Examples  are  supposed 
to  justify  the  most  dangerous  measures,  and,  where  they 


170  Dedications 


do  not  suit  exactly,  the  defect  is  supplied  by  analogy.  Be 
assured  that  the  laws  which  protect  us  in  our  civil  rights, 
grow  out  of  the  constitution,  and  they  must  fall  or  flourish 
with  it.  This  is  not  the  cause  of  faction,  or  of  party,  or  of 
any  individual,  but  the  common  interest  of  every  man  in 
Britain.  Although  the  King  should  continue  to  support 
his  present  system  of  government,  the  period  is  not  very 
distant,  at  which  you  will  have  the  means  of  redress  in 
your  own  power.  It  may  be  nearer,  perhaps,  than  any  of 
us  expect;  and  I  would  warn  you  to  be  prepared  for  it. 
The  King  may  possibly  be  advised  to  dissolve  the  present 
Parliament  a  year  or  two  before  it  expires  of  course,  and 
precipitate  a  new  election,  in  hopes  of  taking  the  nation  by 
surprise.  If  such  a  measure  be  in  agitation,  this  very 
caution  may  defeat  or  prevent  it. 

******* 

The  inattention  or  indifference  of  the  nation  has  con- 
tinued too  long.  You  are  roused  at  last  to  a  sense  of  your 
danger.  The  remedy  will  soon  be  in  your  power.  If 
Junius  lives,  you  shall  often  be  reminded  of  it.  If,  when 
the  opportunity  presents  itself,  you  neglect  to  do  your 
duty  to  yourselves  and  to  posterity,  to  God,  and  to  your 
country,  I  shall  have  one  consolation  left,  in  common  with 
the  meanest  and  basest  of  mankind: — Civil  liberty  may 
still  last  the  life  of  Junius. 


To  Countries,  States,  Cities  171 


Twelve  Indian  Statesmen.     By  George  Smith.     1897. 

"To  all  my  Countrymen  who  care  for  India,  and  espe- 
cially to  the  young  whose  lot  is  to  be  cast  in  it ;  to  show  how 
possible  and  good  it  is  to  unite  the  Statesman  with  the 
Soldier,  the  Philanthropist  with  the  Patriot,  and  the 
Christian  with  all,  in  the  Government  of  a  Subject  Race."^ 

Forty-One  Years  in  India  from  Subaltern  to  Commander- 
in-chief.  By  Field  Marshal  Lord  Roberts  of  Kandahar. 
1898. 

"To  the  country  to  which  I  am  so  proud  of  belonging, 
to  the  army  to  which  I  am  so  deeply  indebted,  and  to  my 
wife,  without  whose  loving  help  my  'Forty-one  Years  in 
India '  could  not  be  the  happy  retrospect  it  is, — I  dedicate 
this  book." 

Legends  of  Switzerland.  By  Helene  Adeline  Guerber. 
1899. 

"  Dedicated  to  Switzerland,  in  grateful  memory  of  happy 
summers  spent  within  its  borders." 

The  Life  and  Letters  of  Admiral  Dewey.  By  Adelbert  M. 
Dewey.     1899. 

"To  the  American  people,  to  whom  George  Dewey,  of 
Vermont,  is  a  most  i'lustrious  example,  and  to  the  many 
thousands  of  noble  men  and  women  in  this  haven  for  the 
oppressed  of  all  the  world,  in  whose  veins  courses  the  blood 
of  Thomas  Dewey,  the  Settler,  this  book  is  most  respectfully 
dedicated  by  the  author." 

Eleanor.     By  Mrs.  Humphry  Ward.     1900. 

"To  Italy,  the  beloved  and  beautiful,  instructress  of  our 
past,  delight  of  our  present,  comrade  of  our  future: — The 
heart  of  an  Englishwoman  offers  this  book." 

'  (Written  by  Sir  Herbert  Edwardes  as  the  Dedication  for  his  "  Life 
of  Sir  Henry  Lawrence,"  which  he  did  not  live  to  complete.) 


172  Dedications 


Theodore  Roosevelt  the  Citizen.     By  Jacob  A.  Riis.     1903. 

"To  the  young  men  of  America." 

The  Life  of  William  Ewart  Gladstone.     By  John  Morley. 
1903. 

"To  the  electors  of  the  Montrose  burghs,  I  beg  leave  to 
inscribe  this  book  in  grateful  recognition  of  the  confidence 
and  friendship  with  which  they  have  honoured  me." 

James  Oglethorpe.     By  Harriet  C.  Cooper.     1904. 

"To  the  ch  Idren  of  Georgia." 

The  Aftermath  of  Slavery.     By  William  A.  Sinclair.     1905. 

"To  all  Americans  who  beHeve  that  the  flag  shall  be  the 
symbol  of  Uberty  under  law  and  of  equal  rights  before  the 
law  for  all  Americans." 

India  and  her  People.     By  Swami  Abhedananda.     1906. 

"To  the  People  of  India,  with  deep  fellow-feeling  and 
earnest  prayers  for  the  restoration  of  their  ancient  glory 
and  national  freedom." 

The  Man  from  Glengarry.     By  Ralph  Connor.     i9o6(?). 

"To  the  Men  of  Glengarry,  who  in  patience,  in  courage, 
and  in  the  fear  of  God,  are  helping  to  build  the  empire  of 
the  Canadian  West,  this  book  is  humbly  dedicated." 

Chinatown  Ballads.     By  Wallace  Irwin.     1906. 

"To  the  City  of  Dreams  that  has  passed  again  to  the 
magic  box  of  the  Dreamer,  this  collection  of  rhymed 
memories  is  afEectionately  dedicated." 

The  Lower  Niger  and  its  Tribes.     By  Major  Arthur  Glyn 
Leonard.     1906. 

DEDICATION 

"To  the  Natives  of  Southern  Nigeria  in  particular,  and  of 
West  Africa  in  general,  this  Work  is  dedicated,  in  all  true 


To  Countries,  States,  Cities  173 


sincerity  and  sympathy,  not  only  as  a  small  memento  of  ten 
years'  personal  touch,  but  in  the  best  and  truest  interests 
of  themselves,  and  of  Humanity,  by  one  who  has  always 
endeavoured  to  labour  on  their  behalf  with  the  strenuous 
and  untiring  energy  of  a  sincere  and  heartfelt  sympathy. 

' '  Further,  as  one  who  voluntarily  and  unselfishly  devoted 
some  of  the  best  years  of  her  life  in  the  same  good  cause, 
it  is  in  all  esteem  and  respect  dedicated  to  the  memory  of 
Miss  Mary  Kingsl£Y,  and  to  the  African  Society  that 
emanated  therefrom,  the  object  and  motive  of  which  is  to 
advance  the  glorious  cause  of  civilisation  and  progress." 

John  Sherman:  His  Life  and  Public  Services.     By  Win- 
field  S.  Kerr.     1908. 

"To  the  People  of  Ohio,  whose  confidence  and  support 
so  honoured  him,  and  whom  he  so  honoured  in  his  public 
services,  this  Life  of  John  Sherman  is  dedicated." 

An  Interpretation  of  India's  Religious  History.     By  Robert 
A.  Hume.     191 1. 

"To  my  Indian  Brothers,  Christian  and  non-Christian, 
with  love  and  hope." 

The  English  and  English  Influence  in  Italy  in  the  XVIII 
Century.     Torino,  191 1. 

"To  the  English  Nation,  worthy  of  its  destinies." 

Panama,  Past  and  Present.     By  Farnham  Bishop.     1913. 

DEDICATION 

"To  the  Old  Admiral,  white  and  frail, 
Red  Indian,  swarthy  Cimaroon, 
Conquistadores  brave  in  mail. 
Beneath  the  blaze  of  tropic  noon, 
To  Morgan's  swaggering  bucaneers, 
To  gallant  Nunez  and  his  men; 
To  Goethals  and  his  engineers. 
Who  cleft  the  peaks  of  Darien." 


174  Dedications 


Sally.     By  Hugh  Clifford. 

"to  MY  BRETHREN  IN  MALAYA " 

"The  grim  Recording  Angel  turns  the  pages  of  the  Book, 
And  the  days  are  thrust  behind  us  past  recall — 
All  the  sorrows  that  we  tasted,  all  the  pleasures  that  we 
took 
In  that  life  we  shared  together,  Brothers  all! 
But  to-day  the  forest  whispers  and  to-day  the  ungkas 
whoop. 
While  the  big,  slow  river  lumbers  down  to  meet  the  sun- 
lit sea. 
And   the  village  drones  and  drowses  where  the  palm- 
fronds  lift  or  droop, 
For  the  old  life  glideth  onward  still — with  ne'er  a  place 
for  me! 


"  Ye  are  far,  too  far,  my  Brothers,  gnarled  brown  faces  that 
I  know — 
Men  who  dealt  with  me  aforetime,  friend  with  friend 
and  heart  with  heart, — 
Our  paths  lie  worlds  asunder,  since  the  Fates  would  have 
it  so, 
For  behold  'The  Order  reached  me,''  and  today,  old 
Friends,  we  part. 
Yet  you  will  not  quite  forget  me,  O  my  Brothers  over  sea — • 
Let  me  keep  that  fond  illusion,  it  will  help  me  oh  my 
way — 
And  I  pray  you  tell  the  little  ones  who  gather  round 
your  knee 
Of  the  days  we  saw  together  in  the  Land  of  the  Malay. 

'  Noto  sudale  sampaihuknen — "The  order  hath  come!" — a  Malay 
euphemism  for  Death,  wherein  there  is  a  great  bitterness. — H.  C. 


To  Countries,  States,  Cities  175 


"And  my  thanks  are  yours,  my  Brothers,  for  a  thousand 
acts  of  grace, 
For  the  trust  wherewith  you  trusted,  for  the  love  where- 
with you  loved, 
For  your  honest,  open  greetings,  outstretched  hand  and 
friendly  face — 
For  the  kindness  that  ye  dealt  me  when  through  all  your 
land  I  roved. 
It  was  mine  to  toil  and  struggle,  it  was  mine  to  war  with 
wrong, 
It  was  mine  to  labour  for  you,  aye  to  sorrow,  hope  and 
yearn ; 
But  I  '11  shout  it  on  the  house-tops  from  Barbados  to 
Hong-Kong — 
If  to  you  I  rendered  service,  I  from  you  had  most  to 
learn ! 

"HughCHfford." 

General   Gordon:    A  Christian  Hero.     By  Major  Setin 
Churchill,     (n.d.) 

"  Dedicated  to  the  young  men  of  England,  with  the 
earnest  desire  that  some  of  the  noble,  Godlike  charac- 
teristics of  this  Christian  soldier  and  hero  may  be 
reproduced  in  future  generations." 


VII 
Uo  Hrmfes  an&  Viavics 


177 


VII 

XTo  Hrmies  an&  Viavics 

The  Kedge-Anchor;  or,  Young  Sailor's  Assistant.  By 
William  Brady,  Sailing-master,  U.  S.  N.     1849. 

"Dedicated  to  the  United  States  Navy  and  Merchant 
Service." 

The  Life  and  Adventures  of  Rear-Admiral  John  Paul  Jones, 
Commonly  Called  Paul  Jones.  By  John  S.  C.  Abbott. 
1874. 

"To  the  officers  and  seamen  of  the  United  States  Navy 
this  volume,  commemorative  of  the  heroic  achievements  of 
one  of  the  most  illustrious  of  their  mmiber,  is  respectfully 
dedicated  by  John  S.  C.  Abbott. 

"Fair  Haven,  Conn.,  1874." 

Personal  Memoirs  of  U.  S.  Grant.     1885. 

"These  volumes  are  dedicated  to  the  American  soldier 
and  sailor. 

"U.S.Grant. 
"New  York  City 
"May  23rd,  1885." 

General  Johnston.    By  Robert  M.  Hughes.     1893. 

"I  take  pride  in  dedicating  to  the  Army  of  Tennessee,  as 
a  tribute  to  its  constancy  and  valor,  this  sketch  of  the  great 
captain  who  led  it  in  its  palmy  days,  and  with  whose  renown 
it  is  inseparably  associated." 

179 


i8o  Dedications 


General  Thomas,     By  Henry  Coppee.     1893. 

"To  the  memory  of  the  officers  and  soldiers  of  the  Army 
of  the  Cumberland  who  fell  while  fighting  with  Thomas, 
and  to  the  noble  survivors  who  contributed  to  his  renown 
and  cherish  his  memory." 

General  Lee.     By  Fitzhugh  Lee.     1894. 

"I  dedicate  this  book  to  the  memory  of  the  soldiers  who 
fought  and  fell  under  the  wave  of  Robert  E.  Lee's  sword, 
and  are  '  sleeping  in  unbroken  ranks,  with  the  dew  on  their 
brows  and  the  rust  on  their  mail. '  " 

George  Washington  Day  by  Day.  By  Elizabeth  Bryant 
Johnston.     1895. 

"To  the  Children  of  my  Country, — the  Army  which - 
Washington  said  could  never  be  conquered." 

On  Many  Seas.  The  Life  and  Exploits  of  a  Yankee  Sailor. 
By  Frederick  Benton  Williams.     1897. 

"To  the  sailors  who  have  made  the  American  flag  known 
and  respected  in  every  harbour  of  the  world." 

A  Gunner  Aboard  the  "Yankee."  From  the  Diary  of 
Number  Five  of  the  After  Port  Gun.  The  Yarn  of  the 
Cruise  and  Fights  of  the  Naval  Reserves  in  the  Spanish- 
American  War.  Edited  by  H.  H.  Lewis,  with  Introduc- 
tion by  Rear- Admiral  Sampson.     1898. 

"To  the  naval  reserve  organizations  throughout  the 
United  States,  who  have  made  such  an  enviable  record 
during  the  Spanish- American  War,  and  before  whom  such 
a  glorious  future  opens,  this  book  is  respectfully  dedicated." 

The  Rough  Riders.     By  Theodore  Roosevelt.     1899. 

"On  behalf  of  the  Rough  Riders  I  dedicate  this  book  to 
the  officers  and  men  of  the  five  regular  regiments  which, 


To  Armies  and  Navies  i8i 


together   with   mine,    made   up  the   cavalry    division    at 
Santiago. 

"Theodore  Roosevelt. 

"Executive  Mansion,  Albany,  N.  Y. 
"May,  1899." 

The  Rescue  of  Cuba.     By  Andrew  S.  Draper.     1899. 

"To  the  heroic  youth  of  our  country,  who  at  the  call  of 
duty  do  not  hesitate  to  ofiEer  their  lives  for  freedom  and  the 
flag." 

The  Gathering  at  Santiago.     By  John  H.  Parker. 

"To  the  enHsted  members  of  the  detachment,  who  by 
their  devotion,  courage,  and  endurance  made  its  success 
possible,  this  volume  is  dedicated  as  a  token  of  esteem  by 
the  author."  \ 

} 
The  Life  of  Wellington.     By  the  Right  Honourable  Sir 

Herbert  Maxwell,  Bart.     1900. 

"To  the  British  Army  in  profound  admiration  for  its 
past  and  equal  confidence  in  its  future,  this  Memoir  of  its 
Great  Example  is  dedicated  by  the  Author." 

Paul  Jones,  Founder  of  the  American  Navy.     By  Augustus 
C.  Buell.     1900. 

"To  Charles  Henry  Cramp,  builder  of  navies,  the  author 
inscribes  this  history  of  Paul  Jones,  founder  of  a  navy." 

David  G.  Farragut.     By  John  Randolph  Spears.     1905. 

"To  the  men  of  the  American  Navy,  good  and  true, 
every  one,  who  believe  with  Admiral  Farragut  that  'the 
best  Protection  against  the  enemy's  fire  is  a  well-directed 
fire  from  our  own  guns.'  " 


i82  Dedications 


Robert  E.  Lee,  the  Southerner.  By  Thomas  Nelson  Page. 
1908. 

"To  the  memory  of  'as  gallant  and  brave  an  army  as 
ever  exsted:'  the  Army  of  Northern  Virginia:  on  whose 
imperishable  deeds  and  incomparable  constancy  the  fame 
of  their  old  Commander  was  founded." 

The  American  Battleship  and  Life  in  the  Navy.  Also 
Humorous  Yarns  as  Told  by  a  Bluejacket.  By  Thomas 
Beyer.     1908. 

"To  the  relatives  and  friends  of  the  American  Bluejackets 
and  all  who  are  interested  in  the  great  United  States  Navy, 
this  book  is  respectfully  dedicated." 

Grant,  the  Man  of  Mystery.  By  Colonel  Nicholas  Smith. 
1909. 

"Dedicated  to  the  memory  of  Ulysses  S.  Grant,  and  to 
the  soldiers  and  sailors  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic." 

The  Revolutionary  War  and  the  Military  Policy  of  the 
United  States.     By  Francis  Vinton  Greene.     191 1. 

"To  the  officers  and  men,  those  now  living  and  those 
who  have  gone  before,  of  the  United  States  Army,  who  have 
carried  its  colors  to  victory  on  many  fields  and  in  many 
climes,  have  compelled  the  surrender  of  its  armed  foes  at 
Saratoga  and  Yorktown,  Vera  Cruz  and  the  City  of  Mexico, 
Donelson,  Vicksburg,  Appomattox  and  Durham's  Station, 
Santiago  and  Manila,  and  who  in  the  intervening  years  of 
peace  have  subdued  the  savage,  explored  the  wilderness, 
prepared  the  great  West  for  the  teeming  millions  who 
now  inhabit  it,  contributed  to  the  advancement  of  science, 
abated  the  tropical  pestilence,  directed  the  nation's  public 
works,  constructed  the  Panama  Canal, — this  book  is,  with 
profound  admiration  and  warm-hearted  affection,  respect- 
fully dedicated." 


To  Armies  and  Navies  183 


Middle  Watch  Musings.    By  Q.  F.  C.  Guns  and  Phyl 
Theeluker.     191 1. 

"To  our  many  naval  friends  who  can  claim  to  come  under 
the  category  of  'cheerful  souls,'  this  book  is  respectfully 
dedicated  by  the  authors." 

The  British  Battle  Fleet.    By  Fred  T.  Jane.     1912. 

"To  those  who  in  all  ages  built  the  ships  of  the  British 
Navy,  and  to  the  unknown  men  who  have  worked  those 
ships  and  so  made  possible  the  fame  of  many  admirals." 


VIII 
Uo  Institutions  an^  Societies 


i8S 


VIII 

XTo  irnstitutlons  anD  Societies 

Volpone,  or  The  Fox.    By  Ben  Jonson.     1605. 

"To  the  most  noble  and  most  equal  sisters,  the  two  famous 
Universities,  for  their  love  and  acceptance  shewn  to  his 
poem  in  the  presentation,  Ben  Jonson,  the  grateful  acknowl- 
edger, dedicates  both  it  and  himself." 

In  the  long  address  that  follows,  on  the  worthiness  of 
the  poet's  calling,  Jonson  admits  the  degradation  of  much 
of  the  stage-poetry  of  the  day,  but  denies  that  "all  are 
embarked  in  this  bold  adventure  for  hell;"  for  himself,  he 
says,  he  can  "affirm  that  I  have  ever  trembled  to  think 
toward  the  least  profaneness."  He  concludes  with  a  fine 
paragraph  that  reads  in  part:  "For  the  present  (most 
reverenced  sisters)  as  I  have  cared  to  be  thankful  for  your 
affections  past,  and  here  made  the  understanding  acquainted 
with  some  ground  of  your  favours;  let  me  not  despair  their 
continuance,  to  the  maturing  of  some  worthier  fruits: 
wherein,  if  my  muses  be  true  to  me,  I  shall  raise  the  de- 
spised head  of  poetry  again,  and  stripping  her  out  of  those 
rotten  and  base  rags  wherewith  the  times  have  adiilterated 
her  form,  restore  her  to  her  primitive  habit,  feature,  and 
majesty,  and  render  her  worthy  to  be  embraced  and  kissed 
of  all  the  great  and  master  spirits  of  our  world." 

Via  Devia:  The  By- Way:  Misleading  the  Weake  and  Un- 
stable into  Dangerous  Paths  of  Error,  by  Colourable 
Shews  of  Apocryphal!  Scriptures,  Unwritten  Traditions, 

187 


i88  Dedications 


Doubtful  Fathers,  Ambiguous  Councells,  and  Pretended 
Catholike  Church.  Discovered  by  Humphrey  Lynde, 
Knight.     1630. 

"To  the  Ingenuous  and  Moderat  Romanists  of  this 
Kingdome:  H.  L.  wisheth  the  knowledge  of  the  Safe  Way/ 
that  leadeth  to  etemall  Happinesse. 

"Christian  is  my  name,  and  Catholique  is  my  Simame: 
the  one  I  challenge  from  my  baptism  in  Christ's  Church; 
the  other  from  my  profession  of  All-saving  Trueth  in  God's 
Word.  If  you  question  this  my  right  or  claime,  I  will 
produce  my  Evidence  out  of  ancient  and  undoubted  Records 
and  joyne  issue  with  you  upon  the  marks  of  your  owne 
Church;  and  if  I  proove  not  the  Faith  which  I  profess  to 
bee  Ancient,  and  Catholike,  I  will  neither  refuse  the  name 
nor  punishment  due  to  Heresie."  The  fifty-five  page 
Epistle  concludes:  "The  cause  is  God's,  the  labour  is  mine; 
if  you  wil  reade  it  impartially  and  can  shew  me  any  error 
clearely,  faithfully,  and  moderately,  I  wil  make  a  work  of 
Retractions,  and  profess  openly  with  righteous  Job:  O 
that  mine  adversary  would  write  a  Booke  against  mee,  I 
would  take  it  upon  my  shoidder,  and  bind  it  as  a  Crown 

unto  me. 

"H.  L." 

Hebreisches  Worter  Buch.     By  Ludwig  Christoph  Schefer, 
Berlenburg.     1720. 

"  To  the  True  Members  of  the  Philadelphian  Community 
which  The  Lord  in  our  times  has  been  pleased  to  cause  to 
appear,  and  to  which  He  will  give  an  open  door,  through 
which  it  attains  a  knowledge  of  the  secrets  and  also  of  the 
signs  of  its  times,  in  order  that  His  approach  may  draw 
ever  nearer,  to  judge  the  living  and  the  dead,  with  His 

'In  1628,  "H.  L."  wrote  Via  Tula,  or  the  Safe  Way  leading  all  Chris- 
tians to  the  true  ancient  and  catholique  faith  now  professed  in  the  Church 
of  England. 


To  Institutions  and  Societies  189 


appearing  and  with  His  Kingdom.  Let  me  wish  Grace, 
Peace,  Light  and  Love  from  God  our  Father  and  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ.     Amen." 

A  New  and  Complete  Illustration  of  the  Celestial  Science 
of  Astrology.     By  Ebenezer  Sibley.     1 784-1 788. 
' '  To  the  ancient  and  honourable  Fraternity  of  Free  and 

Accepted  Masons. 

"Gentlemen  and  Brethren, 

"The  Antiquity  of  your  excellent  Fraternity,  the  univer- 
sality of  its  p  an  and  the  moral  rectitude  and  purity  of  its 
design,  claim  a  decided  pre-eminence  over  every  other 
Bond  of  Society  into  which  mankind  have  ever  formed 
themselves  for  the  mutual  welfare  and  happiness  of  each 
other.  The  nobleness  of  soul  which  first  prompted  to  its 
institution,  and  the  benevolence  of  heart  which  has  ever 
since  prevailed  throughout  all  its  members,  will  remain  a 
subject  of  lasting  admiration! 

"To  you,  therefore,  as  the  promoters  of  liberal  sentiment, 
and  the  guardians  of  every  useful  science,  I  commit  this 
venerable  pile  of  ancient  Astrology;  a  fabr'c  obviously 
constructed  by  the  Great  Architect  of  the  Wor  d,  primeval 
with  the  Ordination  of  Nature,  and  inseparable  from  one 
of  the  grand  subjects  of  your  official  contemp  ation. 

"This  Science,  by  being  little  known,  and  less  understood, 
may  meet  with  censure  and  disapprobation  from  that  de- 
scription of  learned,  as  well  as  of  illiterate,  men,  whose  rule 
of  faith  uniformly  keeps  pace  with  their  own  arbitrary 
conceptions.  But  the  dispassionate  part  of  mankind,  with 
every  good  Mason,  will  candid  y  weigh  the  evidence  '  by 
the  balance  of  the  Sanctuary,'  and  reserve  their  sentence 
till  after  a  fair  and  impartial  trial. 

"Sheltered,  therefore,  under  the  wing  of  your  fraternal 
regard,  and  patronized  by  every  sober  admirer  of  the  secret 
works  of  Nature,  I  shall  attempt  to  lay  the  Foundation 
Stone  of  an  illustrious  Building,  sacred  to  Urania,  upon 


190  Dedications 


which  some  more  able  and  ingenious  Workman,  sanctioned 
by  your  patronage  and  protection,  may  hereafter  raise  the 
edifice  to  out-top  the  skies,  and,  like  Jacob's  ladder,  pierce 
the  starry  regions,  leading  the  intellectual  faculties  of  the 
soul  to  the  most  sublime  contemplations  of  God  and  Nature. 
"I  have  the  honour  to  profess  myself,  with  unequivocal 
attachment  and  esteem, 
"Gentlemen, 

"Your  Accepted  Brother, 
"And  Faithful  Servant, 

"E.  Sibly. 
"Portsmouth  Common, 

"In  the  Year  of  Masonry,  5784." 

This  has  also  a  three-page  dedication  "to  the  young  student  in 
astrology." 

The  Diversions  of  Purley.     By  John  Home  Tooke.     1786. 

"To  the  University  of  Cambridge, 

"One  of  her  grateful  sons — who  always  considers  acts 
of  voluntary  justice  towards  himself  as  Favours, — dedicates 
this  humble  offering.  And  particularly  to  her  chief  orna- 
ment for  virtue  and  talents,  the  reverend  doctor  Beadon, 
master  of  Jesus  college." 

Dictionary  of  the  Chinese  Language.     By  the  Reverend 
Robert  Morrison.     1815. 

"  To  the  honorable  the  Court  of  Directors  of  the  United 
East  India  Company,  at  whose  sole  expense  the  following 
work  is  printed,  it  is  most  respectfully  dedicated  by  their 
much  obliged  and  very  obedient  humble  servant,  the 
Author." 

Force  and  Nature:  Attraction  and  Repulsion.     By  Charles 
Frederick  Winslow.     1869. 

"To  the  British  Association  for  the  Advancement  of 
Science,  and  to  the  scientific  students  of  the  United  States 


To  Institutions  and  Societies         191 


of  America,  the  following  pages  are  respectfully  dedicated 
by  the  Author. 

"London,  August,  1868." 

The  Progress  of  the  World  in  Arts,  Agriculture,  Commerce 
.  .  .  since  he  Beginning  of  the  Nineteenth  Century. 
By  Michael  G.  Mulhall.     1880. 

"To  the  press  of  Great  Britain,  which  so  zealously  pro- 
motes the  moral  and  material  progress  of  the  age,  this  work 
is  respectfully  dedicated  by  the  author." 

Sermons.     By  the  Reverend  Phillips  Brooks.     1880. 

"To  the  three  parishes  which  it  has  been  his  privilege 
to  serve, — the  Church  of  the  Advent,  Philadelphia,  the 
Church  of  the  Holy  Trinity,  Philadelphia,  and  Trinity 
Church,  Boston, — these  sermons  are  affectionately  dedi- 
cated by  their  friend  and  minister." 

A.  H.  Currier  dedicates  the  Life  of  Constans  L.  Goodell  to  the 
two  churches  he  served  in  his  ministry.  The  enumeration  of 
churches  seems  a  not  uncommon  form  of  dedication  in  the  case  of 
a  minister's  biography. 

The  Rise  and  Fall  of  the  Confederate  Government.     By 

Jefferson  Davis.     1881. 

"To  the  Women  of  the  Confederacy, — whose  pious  minis- 
trations to  our  wounded  soldiers  soothed  the  last  hours 
of  those  who  died  far  from  the  objects  of  their  tenderest 
love;  whose  domestic  labors  contributed  much  to  supply 
the  wants  of  our  defenders  in  the  field;  whose  zealous  faith 
in  our  cause  shone  a  guiding  star  undimmed  by  the  darkest 
clouds  of  war;  whose  fortitude  sustained  them  under  all 
privations  to  which  they  were  subjected;  whose  annual 
tribute  expresses  their  enduring  grief,  love,  and  reverence 
for  our  sacred  dead;  and  whose  patriotism  will  teach  their 
children  to  emulate  the  deeds  of  our  revolutionary  sires; — 
these  pages  are  dedicated  by  their  countryman 

"Jefferson  Davis." 


192  '  Dedications 


The  Light  of  Asia.     By  Sir  Edwin  Arnold.     1890. 

"This  volume  is  dutifully  inscribed  to  the  Sovereign, 
Grand  Master,  and  Companions  of  the  Most  Exalted  Order 
of  the  Star  of  India,  by  the  Author." 

The  Pleroma.  A  Poem  of  the  Christ.  By  the  Reverend 
Ezra  Porter  Chittenden.     1890. 

"Dedicated  to  The  Church  which  is  the  fulness  of  Him 
that  laileth  all  in  all." 

History  of  the  American  Pianoforte.  By  Daniel  Spillane. 
1890. 

"To  the  Franklin  Institute  of  Pennsylvania,  which  has 
exercised  such  a  potent  influence  upon  the  early  history  of 
the  American  Pianoforte  and  the  kindred  arts,  this  work 
is  respectfully  dedicated." 

Abraham  Coles:  Biographical  Sketch,  Memorial  Tributes, 
etc.  Edited  by  his  son,  Jonathan  Ackerman  Coles. 
1892. 

"Dedicated  to  the  Evangelical  Alliance,  'an  association 
for  the  defence  of  Religious  Liberty  and  promoting  the 
Unity  of  all  believers  in  the  essentials  of  Christianity  and 
their  Co-operation  for  its  Progress.'  " 

Bernard  of  Clairvaux.     By  Richard  S.  Storrs.     1892. 

"To  the  Church  of  the  Pilgrims,  Brooklyn,  New  York: 
"Trained  by  God's  grace,  in  its  own  happy  work,  til  its 
freedom  has  become  the  helper  of  faith,  its  devoutness  the 
teacher  of  catholic  sympathy,  the  beauty  of  holiness  its 
commanding  ideal,  the  victory  of  Christ  its  supreme  expec- 
tation,— long  service  which  has  been  rich  in  reward, — these 
lectures,  written  in  its  library,  and  sketching  a  life  of  sin- 
gular lustre,  are  affectionately  inscribed." 


To  Institutions  and  Societies  193 


Don  Quixote.     1892. 

"To  the  Royal  Academy  of  Spain. 

" Most  esteemed  Sirs: 

"This  edition  would  have  been  incomplete  without 
the  generous  assistance  which  the  Royal  Academy  has  lent 
to  the  undersigned,  granting  the  reproduction  of  the  most 
valuable  steel  plates  which  adorn  the  rich  editions  published 
by  so  learned  a  body  in  1780  and  18 19. 

"  Profoundly  grateful  for  so  marked  a  favor,  this  edition 
is  dedicated  to  you. 

"Ceferino  Gorchs." 

(From  the  Spanish.) 

The  Book  of  the  Lifeboat.  With  a  Complete  History  of 
the  Lifeboat  Saturday  Movement,  Numerous  Original 
Illustrations,  and  Thrilling  Narratives,  Written  by  Eye- 
witnesses of  Shipwrecks  and  Lifeboat  Rescues  on  the 
Coasts  of  the  British  Isles.  The  Dangers  and  Excite- 
ments Set  forth  by  Members  of  the  Lifeboat  Crews 
Engaged  in  the  Work.  Edited  and  Arranged  by  James 
C.  Dibdin  and  John  Ayling.     1894. 

"Dedicated  by  special  permission  to  the  Royal  National 
Lifeboat  Institution,  and  to  the  Secretary,  Mr.  Charles 
Dibdin." 

Life  of  General  Thomas  Pinckney.  By  the  Reverend 
Charles  Cotesworth  Pinckney.     1895. 

"To  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  in  the  United  States 
of  America,  this  sketch  of  the  fourth  President  General  of 
our  order  is  respectfully  dedicated  by  their  fellow-member 
Charles  Cotesworth  Pinckney,  President  of  the  Society  of 
the  Cincinnati  in  the  State  of  South  CaroHna." 


194  Dedications 


The  Peoples  and  Politics  of   the  Far  East.      By   Henry 
Norman.     1895. 

"  Praesidi  Sociisque  Harvardianis.     Tpo(peta."^ 

Colonial  Days  in  Old  New  York.     By  Alice  Morse  Earle. 
1896. 

"To  the  Society  of  Colonial  Dames  of  the  State  of  New 
York,  this  book  is  dedicated  by  a  loyal  and  loving  member. 

"The  Author." 

The  Tale  of  the  Spinning-Wheel.     By  Elizabeth  Cynthia 
Barney  Buel. 

"Dedicated  in  grateful  affection  to  the  Mary  Floyd 
Tallmadge  Chapter  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution, 
whose  ready  sympathy  and  enthusiasm  have  never  failed 
in  work  for  'home  and  country.'" 

An  American's  Patriotic  Catechism.     By  Elizabeth  Sedg- 
wick Vaill.     1896. 

"  Dedicated  to  Mrs.  Livingstone  K.  Miller,  Regent  of 
the  Liberty  Pole  Chapter  of  Englewood,  New  Jersey,  and 
to  all  Sons  and  Daughters  of  Revolutionary  descent." 

Henry  Klnox,  a  Soldier  of  the  Revolution.     By  Noah  Brooks. 
1900. 

"To  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati,  whose  enduring  patri- 
otic influence  and  beneficence  justify  the  wisdom  of  its 
originators,  this  memorial  of  one  of  its  most  illustrious 
founders  is  respectfully  dedicated." 

Israel  Putnam.     By  William  Farrand  Livingston.     1901 

"To  my  Alma  Mater,  Williams  College,  founded  by  the 
gallant  soldier,  Colonel  Ephraim  Williams,  under  whose 
command  Israel  Putnam  marched  into  his  first  battle." 

'  To  the  President  and  Fellows  of  Harvard.  TpoipeTa  signifies  pay- 
ment due  to  a  nurse  or  rearer. 


To  Institutions  and  Societies         195 


The  Hall  of  Fame.     By  Henry  M.  MacCracken.     1901. 

"To  the  one  hundred  Electors  of  the  Hall  of  Fame, 
dwelHng  in  forty-two  States  of  America,  whose  patriotic 
aid  has  given  to  this  foundation  national  character  and 
influence,  this  voliime  is  gratefully  dedicated." 

The  Orchestra  and  Orchestral  Music.  By  William  James 
Henderson.     1902. 

"To  the  Philharmonic  Society  of  New  York,  which  has 
maintained  through  fifty-seven  years  its  existence  as  an 
orchestra  devoted  to  the  performance  of  artistic  music." 

Glimpses  of  Colonial  Society  and  the  Life  at  Princeton 
College  1766-1773.  By  One  of  the  Class  of  1763,  William 
Paterson.     Edited  by  W.  Jay  Mills.     1903. 

"To  all  lovers  of  Princeton  University  and  its  illustrious 
past,  this  book  is  dedicated  in  memory  of  William  Paterson, 
3d." 

Life  of  Robert  Edward  Lee.     By  Henry  E.  Shepherd.    1906. 

"To  the  Women  of  the  Confederacy,  whose  faith  has 
never  faltered,  whose  zeal  has  never  grown  cold,  even 
though  men  have  proved  recreant  to  the  Cause;  whose 
heroism  elicited  the  highest  admiration  of  Lee,  I  dedicate 
this  Volume,  in  the  hope  that  it  may  live  with  the  Memory 
of  their  Glory  and  the  Eternity  of  his  Fame." 

Footsteps  in  a  Parish.  An  Appreciation  of  Maltbie  Daven- 
port Babcock  as  a  Pastor.  By  John  Timothy  Stone. 
1908. 

"To  the  loyal  people  of  Brown  Memorial  Church,  whose 
love  and  faithfulness  have  caused  those  who  have  ministered 
to  them  to  rise  up  and  call  them  blessed." 


196       Dedications  to  Institutions,  etc. 


The  Call  of  the  City.    By  Charles  Mulford  Robinson.    1908. 

"  AfiEectionately  dedicated  to  the  Humdnim  Club, 
Rochester,  New  York." 

The  Life  of  Principal  Rainy.  By  P.  Carnegie  Simpson. 
1909. 

"To  the  Church  which  is  yet  to  arise  in  Scotland, 
united,  national,  and  free." 

The  Japanese  Nation,  its  Land,  its  People  and  its  Life. 
With  Special  Consideration  to  its  Relations  to  the  United 
States,     By  Inazo  Nitobe,  A.M.,  Ph.D.,  LL.D.     1912. 

(President  of  the  first  National  College,  Japan;  Professor 
in  the  Imperial  University  at  Tokio ;  Exchange  Professor 
from  Japan  to  American  Universities.) 

"  To  the  Universities  of  Brown,  Coltmibia,  Johns  Hopkins, 
Virginia,  Illinois,  Minnesota,  under  whose  auspices  were 
delivered  the  lectures  which  gave  it  birth,  I  dedicate  this 
book  in  grateful  remembrance." 

Organized  Labor.    By  A.  J.  Portenar.     1912. 

"to  organized  labor." 
"  Reflecting  every  human  frailty ; 
Reflecting  every  human  virtue; 
Liberal,  generous,  tyrannical,  arrogant. 
Working  injustice  while  crying  for  justice ; 
Working  for  justice  while  suffering  injustice; 
More  good  than  evil,  more  sinned  against  than  sinning, 
This  book  is  dedicated  in  the  hope  that  it  may  be  of 
service." 


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Uo  Xovcts  of  /»anftln2> 


197 


IX 

Uo  Xovers  ot  /iianfttn& 

The  Percy  Anecdotes :  Original  and  Select.  By  Sholto  and 
Reuben  Percy.     182 1. 

"  To  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Fry,  the  female  Howard  of  her  times, 
these  anecdotes  of  beneficence  are  respectfully  inscribed 
by  her  most  devoted  and  obedient  himible  servants. 

"Sholto  Percy 
"  Reuben  Percy." 

This  is  the  dedication  of  the  Anecdotes  of  Beneficence  in  Volume 
I  of  the  collection.  Mrs.  Fry  herself  is  the  subject  of  one  of  the 
anecdotes  in  this  section,  and  of  another  in  the  Anecdotes  of  Human- 
ity in  the  same  volume;  and  the  appropriateness  of  the  dedication 
will  be  evident  from  a  few  quotations.  "The  great  pattern  of  active 
goodness,  to  whom  these  Anecdotes  of  Beneficence  are  inscribed,  was 
so  early  inspired  with  a  desire  to  be  of  use  to  her  fellow  creatures 
that  in  her  eighteenth  year  she  prevailed  on  her  father,  Mr. 
John  Gurney  of  Earlham  Hall,  in  the  county  of  Norfolk,  to  convert 
one  of  the  apartments  of  Earlham  Hall  into  a  school-room.  Here 
Mrs.  Fry  daily  received  four  and  twenty  poor  children  to  whom 
she  read  and  explained  the  Bible.  ...  In  1800,  she  married  Mr. 
Fry,  who,  far  from  opposing  her  benevolent  labours,  does  every- 
thing to  facilitate  them."  The  work  that  establishes  her  right  to 
be  called  a  "female  Howard"  was  the  alleviation  of  the  conditions 
of  women  prisoners  in  Newgate.  After  visiting  Newgate  at  the 
instance  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  and  noting  the  frightful  condi- 
tions that  prevailed  there,  Mrs.  Fry  formed  a  committee  of  Friends 
(about  1 816)  and  was  given  the  authority  to  bring  about  reforms. 
"After  a  year  of  unceasing  labour  on  the  part  of  Mrs.  Fry  and  the 
other  members  of  the  Committee,  they  had  the  noble  satisfaction 

199 


200  Dedications 


of  exhibiting  one  of  the  most  amazing  transformations  which  was 
perhaps  ever  effected  in  the  condition  of  a  number  of  human 
beings.  'Riot,  licentiousness,  and  filth  .  .  .  were  exchanged  for 
order,  sobriety,  and  comparative  neatness,  in  the  chamber,  the 
apparel,  and  the  persons  of  the  prisoners.  There  was  no  more  to 
be  seen  an  assemblage  of  abandoned  and  shameless  creatures, 
half  naked  and  half  drunk,  rather  demanding  than  requesting 
charity.  The  prison  no  longer  resounded  with  obscenity  and 
imprecations  and  licentious  songs.  To  use  the  strong  but  just 
expression  of  one  who  knew  the  prison  well,  this  hell  upon  earth 
exhibited  the  appearance  of  an  industrious  manufactory,  or  a 
well-regulated  family, '  " 

Fisher's  New  System  of  Society.    Philadelphia,  1826. 

"To  Robert  Owen  and  those  other  members  of  the 
community  who  are  anxious  to  ameliorate  the  Condition 
of  Society,  the  following  pages  are  Respectfully  inscribed. 

"By  W.L.Fisher." 

Fort's  Medical  Practise.    By  Tomlinson  Fort.     1849. 

"  To  the  physicians  of  the  State  of  Georgia :  Gentlemen, — 

"I  dedicate  to  you  this  Dissertation  on  the  practise  of 
medicine,  as  a  grateful  acknowledgement  of  the  kindness, 
respect,  and  confidence,  which  I  have  experienced  at  the 
hands  of  every  one  of  you  with  whom  I  have  had  the  honour 
of  becoming  acquainted;  and  to  show  that  I  have  great 
reliance  in  your  ready  acquiescence  in  this  attempt  to  give 
to  the  science  of  Medicine  a  wider  range  in  the  mental 
operations  of  the  age. 

"With  great  respect,  your  obedient  servant, 

"TomUnson  Fort. 

"  Milledgeville,  Ga.,  January  23,  1849." 

Life  and  Public  Services  of   John  Quiacy  Adams.     By 
William  H.  Seward.     1855. 

"To  the  friends  of  equal  liberty  and  human  rights 
throughout  the  world,  this  volume  is  respectfully  inscribed." 


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Social  Reform  in  England.     By  Lucien  Davesies  de  Pontes. 
Translated  by  the  Widow  of  the  Author.     1866. 

"To  her  own  and  her  departed  husband's  dear  and 
honoured  friend,  Matthew  Davenport  Hill,  to  whose 
unwearied  exertions  in  the  cause  of  humanity  the  improve- 
ments of  penal  discipline  in  England  are  in  a  great  degree 
due,  this  volume  is  dedicated  by  the  widow  of  the  author." 

Elements  of  Art  Criticism.    By  George  Whitefield  Samson. 
1867. 

"To  W.  W.  Corcoran,  whose  intelligent  culture  at  home 
and  abroad,  whose  appreciative  patronage  of  art,  and 
whose  generous  benefactions  in  every  charity,  have  made 
him  a  representative  American  in  devotion  to  'the  true, 
the  beautiful,  and  the  good,'  and  especially  the  national 
patron  of  art  at  the  metropolis  of  the  American  Union, 
this  volimie  is  respectfully  dedicated  by  his  friend,  the 
author." 

The  Charities  of  New  York,  Brooklyn,  and  Staten  Island. 
By  Henry  J.  Cammann  and  Hugh  N.  Camp.     1868. 

"To  the  Reverend  William  A.  Muhlenberg,  D.D.,  the 
honoured  founder  and  pastor  of  St.  Luke's  Hospital;  who, 
by  his  unaffected  piety  and  winning  kindness,  has  drawn  to 
his  work  of  love  and  charity  many  a  willing  heart,  many 
a  liberal  hand;  this  book  is  respectfully  dedicated  by  the 
Authors." 

Underwoods.    By  Robert  Louis  Stevenson.     1887. 

"There  are  men  and  classes  of  men  that  stand  above  the 
common  herd:  the  soldier,  the  sailor,  and  the  shepherd  not 
unfrequently ;  the  artist  rarely;  rare^er  still,  the  clergyman; 
the  physician  almost  as  a  rule.  He  is  the  flower  (such  as 
it  is)  of  our  civilisation;  and  when  that  stage  of  man  is  done 


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with,  and  only  remembered  to  be  marvelled  at  in  history, 
he  will  be  thought  to  have  shared  as  little  as  any  in  the 
defects  of  the  period  and  most  notably  exhibited  the  virtues 
of  the  race.  Generosity  he  has,  such  as  s  poss  ble  to  those 
who  practice  an  art,  never  to  those  who  drive  a  trade; 
discretion,  tested  by  a  hundred  secrets;  tact,  tried  in  a 
thousand  embarrassments;  and  what  are  more  important, 
Heraclean  cheerfulness  and  courage.  So  it  is  that  he 
brings  air  and  cheer  into  the  sick-room,  and  often  enough, 
though  not  so  often  as  he  wishes,  brings  healing. 

"Gratitude  is  but  a  lame  sentiment ;  thanks,  when  they 
are  expressed,  are  often  more  embarrassing  than  welcome; 
and  yet  I  must  set  forth  mine  to  a  few  out  of  many  doctors 
who  have  brought  me  comfort  and  help:  to  Dr.  Willey  of 
San  Francisco,  whose  kindness  to  a  stranger  it  must  be  as 
grateful  to  him,  as  it  is  touching  to  me,  to  remember;  to 
Dr.  Karl  Ruedi  of  Davos,  the  good  genius  of  the  English 
in  his  frosty  mountains;  to  Dr.  Herbert  of  Paris,  whom  I 
knew  only  for  a  week,  and  to  Dr.  Caissot  of  Montpellier, 
whom  I  knew  only  for  ten  days,  and  who  have  yet  written 
their  names  deeply  in  my  memory;  to  Dr.  Brandt  of  Roy  at; 
to  Dr.  Wakefield  of  Nice;  to  Dr.  Chepmell,  whose  visits 
make  it  a  pleasure  to  be  ill;  to  Dr.  Horace  Dobell,  so  wise 
in  counsel;  to  Sir  Andrew  Clark,  so  unwearied  in  kindness; 
and  to  that  wise  youth,  my  uncle.  Dr.  Balfour. 

"I  forget  as  many  as  I  remember;  and  I  ask  both  to 
pardon  me,  these  for  silence,  those  for  inadequate  speech. 
But  one  name  I  have  kept  on  purpose  to  the  last,  because  it 
is  a  household  word  with  me,  and  because  if  I  had  not 
received  favours  from  so  many  hands  and  in  so  many 
quarters  of  the  world,  it  should  have  stood  upon  this  page 
alone:  that  of  my  friend  Thomas  Bodley  Scott  of  Bourne- 
mouth. Will  he  accept  this,  although  shared  among  so 
many,  for  a  dedication  to  himself?  and  when  next  my  ill- 
fortune  (which  has  thus  its  pleasant  side)  brings  him  hurry- 
ing to  me  when  he  would  fain  sit  down  to  meat  or  lie  down 


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to  rest,  will  he  care  to  remember  that  he  takes  this  trouble 
for  one  who  is  not  fool  enough  to  be  imgrateful? 

"R.  L.  S. 
"Skerryvore, 

' '  B  ournemouth . ' ' 

Rifted  Clouds.     By  Bella  Cooke,     (n.  d.) 

"  Dedicated  to  Miler  W.  Palmer,  M.D.,  who  for  fifty-nine 
years  was  Bella  Cooke's  be  oved  physician."     (Volume  III.) 

Bella  Cooke  was  an  invalid,  and  very  poor,  and  her  physician 
treated  her  for  years  without  pay. 

Stephen  Hislop,  Pioneer  Missionary  and  Naturalist  in 
Central  India  from  1844-1863.     By  George  Smith.     1888. 

"To  John  Campbell  White,  Overtown,  whose  life  illus- 
trates the  spiritual  law  of  Thomas  Chalmers,  that  foreign 
missions  act  on  home  missions  not  by  exhaustion  but  by 
fermentation." 

The  Apostle  of  Burma :  A  Missionary  Epic  in  Commemora- 
tion of  the  Centennial  of  the  Birth  of  Adoniram  Judson. 
By  William  C  Richards.     1889. 

"to  EDWARD  JUDSON,  D.D." 

"Dear  Friend,  to  thee,  thy  noble  father's  son. 
May  I,  with  fitness  unimpeachable. 
These  htunble  lays  inscribe,  which  seek  to  tell 
What  he  in  Gautama's  great  realm  had  done, 
What  sought  to  do,  what  suffered,  and  what  won 
Of  guerdons,  such  as  dauntless  Paul  befell, 
Seeking  in  lesser  Asia  to  dispel 
Like  heathen  glooms  thy  great  sire  gazed  upon. 


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"Apostles  of  the  Gentiles  both,  their  names 
At  the  far  ends  of  nineteen  centuries  ring; 
And  thine  with  Timothy's  I  'm  fain  to  match, 
Since  thou  hadst  grace  (as  he  from  Paul)  to  catch 
His  zeal  and  spirit,  of  whose  worth  I  bring 
These  echoes  of  the  Christian  world's  acclaims." 

Honda  the  Samurai,  a  Story  of  Modern  Japan.     By  Wil- 
liam Elliot  Griffis,  D.D.     1890. 

"To  the  Noble  Band  of  Missionaries,  living  and  dead, 
who  have  done  so  much  to  make  the  new  Japan  that  is, 
and  the  Christian  Japan  that  is  to  be,  the  Author  dedicates 
this  work  in  profound  appreciation." 

City   Government  in  the  United  States.     By  Alfred  R. 
Conkling.     1894. 

"To  the  founders  of  the  City  Club  of  New  York,  whose 
zealous  devotion  to  the  cause  of  good  government  is  heartily 
appreciated  by  all  public-spirited  citizens,  these  pages  are 
sincerely  inscribed." 

The  New  Acts  of  the  Apostles,  or  the  Marvel  of  Modem 
Missions.     By  Arthur  T.  Pier  son.     1894. 

"As  a  grateful  offering  to  the  memory  of  the  Reverend 
Alexander  Duff,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  who  beyond  most  other  men 
of  this  century  of  missions  contributed  to  the  new  chapters 
of  its  missionary  history;  and  who,  having  served  his  own 
generation  by  the  will  of  God,  '  being  dead,  yet  speaketh ' ; 
and  as  an  affectionate  tribute  to  the  Reverend  Andrew 
Thomson,  D.D.,  F.R.S.E.,  of  Edinburgh,  Scotland,  senior 
member  of  the  directory  of  the  lectureship,  who,  having 
passed  four  score  years,  at  his  advanced  age  still  holds  forth 
the  word  of  life,  preaching  the  message  of  the  Gospel,  and 
urging  the  Church  of  Christ  to  greater  fidelity  in  her  mission 
to  mankind,  this  volume  is  inscribed  by  the  author." 


To  Lovers  of  Mankind  205 


"Dr.  Duff  was  a  man  distinguished  alike  by  his  fine  genius,  his 
glowing  eloquence,  and  his  Christian  zeal, — a  man  whose  name, 
familiar  as  a  household  word  in  many  parts  of  India  at  the  present 
day,  stands  in  the  front  rank  of  those  great  missionaries  who  have 
been  incalculable  blessings  to  India  during  recent  generations." 
(From  the  introduction  to  this  book  by  the  Reverend  A.  Thomson.) 

A  History  of  the  Warfare  of  Science  with  Theology.     By 
Andrew  D  White.     1898. 

"To  the  memory  of  Ezra  Comer  I  dedicate  this  book." 

Pulmonary  Tuberculosis.    By  S.  A.  Knopf,  M.D.     1899. 

"To  the  hygienists,  statesmen,  and  philanthropists,  and 
the  many  noble  men  and  women  inside  and  outside  of  the 
medical  profession,  who  labor  and  have  labored  in  behalf 
of  tuberculous  invalids,  and  who  have  helped  to  demonstrate 
that  constmiption  is  a  preventable  and  curable  disease." 

A   Study   of   Christian   Missions.     By   William   Newton 
Clarke,  D.D.     1900. 

"To  the  pastors  of  America." 

Men  of  Might  in  India  Missions;  the  Leaders  and  their 
Epochs,  1706-1899.     By  Helen  H.  Holcomb.     1901. 

"To  the  young  men  and  maidens  whose  hearts  God  has 
touched,  and  who  in  life's  fair  morning,  looking  out  over 
the  world's  great  harvest-field,  are  asking,  '  Lord,  what  wilt 
thou  have  me  to  do?'  this  volume  is  dedicated  with  the 
prayer  that  some  of  those  who  read  these  pages,  hearing 
the  voice  of  the  Lord  saying  as  He  did  to  His  prophet  Isaiah, 
'Whom  shall  I  send,  and  who  will  go  for  us?'  may  answer, 
as  did  the  prophet,  'Here  am  I,  send  me.'  " 

Queen  of  the  Woods.     By  Chief  Simon  Pokagon.     1901. 

"As  a  token  of  sincere  appreciation,  I,  Pokagon,  hereby 
inscribe  Queen  of  the  Woods  to  all  societies  and  individuals, 


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benefactors  of  our  race, — who  have  so  bravely  stood  for 
our  rights,  while  poisoned  arrows  of  bitter  prejudice  flew 
thick  and  fast  about  them, — boldly  declaring  to  all  the 
world  that  'the  white  man  and  the  red  man  are  brothers, 
and  that  God  is  the  Father  of  All. '  " 

The  Story  of  My  Life.     By  Helen  Keller.     1903. 

"To  Alexander  Graham  Bell,  who  has  taught  the  deaf 
to  speak  and  enabled  the  listening  ear  to  hear  speech  from 
the  Atlantic  to  the  Rockies,  I  dedicate  this  story  of  my 
life." 

The  Life  and  Times  of  Thomas  Jefiferson.     By  Thomas  E. 
Watson.     1903. 

"Because  he  has  consecrated  his  wealth,  talent,  and 
energies  to  the  improvement  of  the  conditions  under  which 
the  masses  of  our  people  live;  because  he  has  shown  an 
earnest,  fearless,  and  consistent  interest  in  the  cause  of 
the  weak  and  oppressed ;  because  he  is  today  working  with 
splendid  ability  along  the  same  lines  which  Mr.  Jefiferson 
marked  out  a  hundred  years  ago,  I  dedicate  this  book  to 
William  Randolph  Hearst." 

Islam  and  the  Oriental  Churches.     By  William  Ambrose 
Shedd.     1904. 

"  Dedicated  to  the  memory  of  Benjamin  Woods  Larabee, 
who  met  a  cruel  death,  Salmas,  Persia,  March  Ninth, 
MCMIV,  a  true  friend  and  a  devoted  missionary." 

On  the  Trail  of  the  Immigrant.     By  Edward  A.  Steiner. 
1906. 

"This  book  is  affectionately  dedicated  to  'The  Man  at 
the  Gate, '  Robert  Watchorn,  United  States  Commissioner 
of  Immigration  at  the  Port  of  New  York,  who,  in  the  exer- 
cise of  his  office,  has  been  loyal  to  the  interests  of  his  coun- 


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try,  and  has  dealt  humanely,  justly  and  without  prejudice, 
with  men  of  'every  kindred  and  tongue  and  people  and 
nation.'  " 

The  Life  of  Henry  George.     By  Henry  George,  Jr.     1906. 

"To  all  who  strive  for  the  reign  of  justice." 

The  Study  of  Stellar  Evolution.     By  George  Ellery  Hale. 
1907. 

"These  volumes  are  dedicated  to  the  men  and  women  of 
our  time  and  country  who,  by  wise  and  generous  giving, 
have  encouraged  the  search  after  truth  in  all  departments 
of  knowledge." 

Daybreak  in  Turkey.     By  James  L.  Barton,  D.D.     1908. 

"To  the  revered  memory  of  that  noble  company  of  men 
and  women  of  all  races  and  creeds  who  have  toiled  and 
sacrificed  and  died  that  Turkey  might  be  free,  this  volume 
is  dedicated." 

Gillette's    Industrial    Solution:    World    Corporation.     By 
Melvin  L.  Severy.     1908. 

DEDICATION 

"For  all  those  who  suffer — love,  sympathy  and  hope. 
For  those  who,  comfortable  themselves,  wou'd  yet  rejoice 
in  the  alleviation  of  their  brothers'  pain — greeting,  a 
mission  and  Godspeed.  For  those  great  sou's  who  cannot 
accept  a  selfish  peace,  or  find  an  individual  happiness,  in 
the  midst  of  general  misery — enthusiasm,  the  right  hand  of 
fellowship,  and  enlistment  in  the  cause  of  human  uplift — the 
cause  beside  which  all  others  are  lost  in  insignificance." 

Christian  Epoch-Makers.     By  Henry  C.  Vedder.     1908. 

"To  William  Ashmore,  who  for  fifty  golden  years  by 
precept  and  example  has  taught  China  the  Gospel,  and 
America  the  worth  of  foreign  missions." 


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Haremlik:  Some  Pages  from  the  Life  of  Turkish  Women. 
By  Demetra  Vako  Brown  (Mrs,  Kenneth  Brown).     1909. 

"To  Kenneth  Brown,  who  has  not  crossed  the  threshold 
of  a  Harem,  but  without  whose  help  these  friends  of  mine 
would  never  have  crossed  theirs." 

Social  Service  and  the  Art  of  Healing.  By  Richard  C. 
Cabot,  M.D.     1909. 

"To  the  Social  Workers  of  the  Massachusetts  General 
Hospital,  whose  fruitful  labors  this  book  lamely  but  most 
gratefully  describes." 

Visiting  Nursing  in  the  United  States.  By  Yssabella 
Waters.     1909. 

"To  Lillian  D.  Wald,  founder  of  the  Nurses'  settlement, 
New  York  City,  whose  work  has  been  an  inspiration  to  so 
many  nurses." 

Through  the  work  of  this  settlement,  over  sixty  thousand  patients 
among  the  poor  are  cared  for  every  year. 

Florence  Nightingale.     By  Laura  E.  Richards.     1909. 

"To  the  Sister  Eleanor  of  the  Sisterhood  of  Saint  Mary, 
herself  through  many  long  years  a  devoted  worker  for  the 
poor,  the  sick,  and  the  sorrowful,  this  brief  record  of  an 
heroic  life  is  affectionately  dedicated." 

Morris  Ketchum  Jessup.  A  Character  Sketch.  By  William 
Adams  Brown.     1910. 

"To  those  who  love  their  kind  and  prove  their  love  by 
service." 

Regeneration:  Being  an  Account  of  the  Social  Work  of 
the  Salvation  Army  in  Great  Britain.  By  H.  Rider 
Haggard.     1910. 

"I  dedicate  these  pages  to  the  Officers  and  Soldiers  of 
the  Salvation  Army,  in  token  of  my  admiration  of  the  self- 


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sacrificing  work  by  which  it  is  their  privilege  to  aid  the 
poor  and  wretched  throughout  the  world." 

The  Laws  of  Japanese  Painting.     By  Henry  P.  Bowie. 
1911. 

"To  the  memory  of  Kubota  Beisen,  a  great  artist  and 
a  kindly  man,  whose  happiness  was  in  helping  others,  and 
whose  triumphant  career  has  shed  enduring  lustre  upon  the 
Art  of  Japanese  Painting." 

Congo  Life  and  Folklore,     By  the  Reverend  John  H.  Weeks. 
1911. 

"To  my  colleagues,  living  and  dead,  whose  arduous 
labours  and  faithful  lives  have  redounded  to  the  glory  of 
Christ,  and  to  the  establishment  of  His  Kingdom  in  Congo- 
land;  and  to  those  co-workers  in  the  home-land  whose 
generosity,  prayers  and  kindly  words  have  supported, 
strengthened  and  encouraged  them  all  these  years,  this 
book  is  respectfully  dedicated." 

Is  that  Lamp  Going  Out?    The  Crimean  Veteran  Tells 
how  the  Lady  Lit  the  Lamp.     191 1. 

"To  the  heroic  memory  of  Florence  Nightingale,  'the 
Lady  with  the  Lamp.'  In  grateful  recognition  of  those 
who  have  worked  in  the  light  of  her  Lamp  for  the  wounded 
in  the  Battle  of  Life,  and  in  the  hope  that  some  who  read 
may  spare  a  drop  of  oil,  so  that  her  Lamp  may  shine  more 
brightly  until  the  day  break,  and  the  shadows  flee  away." 

Replanning  Small  Cities.     By  John  Nolen.     1912. 

' '  To  the  public-spirited  men  and  women  who  have  helped 
to  demonstrate  to  town  and  city  governments  the  value  of 
better  methods  of  planning." 


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Spinal  Treatment.     By  Alva  A.  Gregory,  M.D.     1912. 

"This  volume  is  dedicated  with  professional  courtesy 
to  Professors  of  the  Healing  Art,  my  co-laborers  in  combat- 
ing the  inroads  of  disease  and  in  reliev  ng  humanity  of  pain 
and  suffering,  by  the  Author." 

The  Last  Cruise  of  the  Saginaw.     By  George  H.  Read. 
1912. 

"This  book  is  dedicated  to  the  memory  of  the  noble 
men  who  lost  their  lives  in  the  effort  to  obtain  relief  for 
their  shipwrecked  comrades." 

A  Story  Garden  for  Little  Children.     By  Maud  Lindsay. 

"To  Lulie  Jones,  the  founder  of  the  Florence  Free 
Kindergarten  and  a  lover  of  little  children  everywhere." 

The  New  Freedom.     By  Woodrow  Wilson.     1913. 

"To  every  man  or  woman  who  may  derive  from  it,  in 
however  small  a  degree,  the  impulse  of  unselfish  public 
service." 

The  Divine  Origin  of  Christianity,  Indicated  by  its  Histori- 
cal Effects.  By  Richard  S.  Storrs,  D.D.,  LL.  D.  1884. 
"  To  the  memory  of  William  Adams,  D.D.,  LL.D., 
honored  and  beloved  for  his  admirable  powers,  for  his 
many  accomplishments,  for  his  large  usefulness,  for  the 
wisdom  of  his  counsels,  the  grace  of  his  engaging  courtesy, 
the  unfailing  fidelity  of  his  friendship;  most  of  all,  for  the 
beauty  and  strength  of  his  Christian  faith,  these  lectures, 
prepared  at  his  urgent  invitation,  and  afterward  rewarded 
by  his  approval,  are  affectionately  inscribed." 


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211 


Uo  Ueacbers  anC)  Students 

Theocritus:  Idylls.    Aldine  Press.     1495. 

"Aldus  Manutius,  Roman,  to  Baptista  Guarinus,  his 
teacher,  gives  very  cordial  greeting. 

"To  thee,  most  learned  master,  the  Theogonia  of  Hesiod, 
which  thou  dost  ask  of  us  to  interpret  in  behalf  of  thy  pupils. 
We  have  added  the  Scutum  of  the  same  poet  and  the  books 
of  the  Georgics  and  besides  the  Idylls  of  Theocritus,  or  the 
thirty  little  works.  Also  I  am  selecting  the  morals  in  verse 
of  Theognis,  the  very  ancient  poet  of  whom  both  Plato  in 
his  laws  and  Isocrates  in  his  orations  makes  mention.  Nor 
is  Phocylides  absent  whom  in  his  ancient  lethographs(?) 
Isocrates  considers  equal  to  Demonicus.  It  also  seemed 
worth  while  to  add  the  interpretation  of  that  book  of  the 
very  great  Planudius  which  begins  'When  I  had  considered* 
— which  is  reported  to  have  been  by  Cato  himself — but 
whichever  it  was,  he  was  learned  and  worth  reading,  even 
though  it  was  full  of  his  sentiment  (i.e.  Cato's).  Planudius 
in  Greek  even,  has  translated  the  reading  in  hexameter 
verse,  learnedly  and  indeed  elegantly.  This  interpretation 
written  on  parchment  300  years  ago  and  by  so  much  more, 
among  letters  so  nearly  defaced  by  time  that  they  could 
scarcely  be  deciphered,  was  turned  over  to  me  to  see  by 
Franciscus  Roscius,  a  young  man,  perfectly  reliable  and 
learned  in  Greek  and  especially  in  Latin,  nor  is  this  astonish- 
ing for  he  was  bom,  and  himself  sprung,  from  your  fortunate 
Verona,  which  is  the  mother  and  nurse,  as  it  always  has 

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been,  of  the  most  learned  men.  We  are  also  attending  to 
certain  other  things  that  must  be  useful  to  students,  which 
should  be  seen  in  the  printed  form  of  a  book. 

"If,  however,  you  read  unconnected  things,  oh  most 
learned  teacher,  as  much  here  as  in  the  rest  of  the  books, 
which  I  am  taking  care  to  have  printed  for  the  common 
use  of  all  students  (for  that  it  is  in  some  way  so  I  do  not 
deny),  do  not  impute  it  to  me  but  to  the  copies.  Indeed, 
I  do  not  pretend  to  be  a  corrector  of  books,  for  in  certain 
ones  it  might  be  a  task  if  OEdipus  were  interpreter,  so  indeed, 
certain  others  are  mutilated  and  altered  so  that  not  even 
the  one  who  composed  them,  if  he  came  to  life  again,  could 
correct  them.  I  have  rather  with  the  greatest  study  taken 
care  that  they  be  printed  more  correctly  than  even  the 
copy  itself, — as  we  did  in  the  case  of  ApoUonius,  the  gram- 
marian, so  in  this  book,  in  these  selections,  which  we  have 
added:  to  make  a  thing  valid  is  more  satisfactory  than 
nothing.  That  which  is  incorrect,  if  it  be  hidden,  rarely 
or  never  is  corrected.  If,  in  truth,  it  goes  out  in  public, 
there  will  be  many  to  set  it  right,  at  least  for  a  long  time. 

"So  in  Fabius  Quintilianus,  so  in  C.  Plinius,  grandson^ 
so  in  several  others,  do  we  see  the  act.  These  daily  correct, 
daily  come  nearer  to  pristine  elegance  and  simplicity.  But 
they  are  very  unfair  and  ungrateful  if  there  are  those  who 
accuse  me — I  call  nothing  down  upon  them — except  that 
they  themselves  might  some  day  undertake  the  printing  of 
Greek  books.  They  might  feel  certainly  far  otherwise. 
But  this  is  enough. 

"In  truth,  this  book  to  you  we  dedicate,  oh  excellent 
teacher :  first  because  of  my  friendship  toward  the  Veronese 
(for  I  owe  very  much  to  the  Veronese:  for  by  Gaspar  of 
Verona,  the  very  distinguished  grammarian,  I  dedicated 
Latin  compositions  at  Rome,  and  by  thee,  forsooth,  both 
Latin  and  Greek  compositions  at  Ferrara);  then  because 
nearly  all  this  book  is  about  morals.  Indeed,  what  is  more 
proper  than  to  write  about  morals  to  one  who  is  most 


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adorned  of  all  men  with  morals.  Thou  art,  indeed,  in  our 
age  another  Socrates.  Nor  do  I  fear  lest  you  think  I  flatter 
you,  for  thou  knowest  that  these  things  are  most  desired. 
But  I  would  that  you  forbear  with  me  since  I  have  written 
these  things  to  thee  about  thyself.  We  did  this  that  all 
may  know  how  much  we  know  is  in  thyself. 

"Thinking  of  me,  fare  thee  well. 

"Venice,  1495." 

Dictionum  Graecium.     Aldine  Press,  Venice,  1497. 

"Aldus  Manutius,  Roman,  to  all  students  gives  very 
cordial  greeting. 

"I  had  been  getting  up  'The  lexicons  of  the  Greeks' 
(Greek)  which  in  Latin  we  may  call  'dictionaries,'  not  pre- 
pared for  pubh  cation  in  our  type  but  rather  that  I  might 
have  them  in  fullest  and  purest  form.  But,  although  I 
knew  it  to  be  exceedingly  difficult  not  only  for  me,  hindered 
by  family  affairs  and  the  printing  business,  but  even  for 
any  one  well  versed  and  experienced  in  both  languages 
(i.e.  Latin  and  Greek),  the  liberal  arts,  in  medicine  and  all 
the  sciences,  I  have  changed  my  mind.  As  it  surely  is 
necessary  to  understand  the  whole  and  to  translate  all  the 
expressions  'correctly'  (Greek),  I  do  not  know  whether 
anybody  in  our  time  can  take  this  upon  himself  except 
one  or  another  who  even  though  he  keeps  his  Greek  and 
Latin  learning  pretty  well,  nevertheless  with  the  many 
years  elapsing,  has  let  it  lie  idle  until  now.  Who  is  well 
acquamted  with  the  liberal  arts?  Who  is  well  schooled  in 
the  simple  things  for  which  there  is  need  in  medicine? 
Alas !  It  is  a  shame  to  say  it,  but  we  scarcely  know  lettuce, 
cabbage,  and  the  grass  which  makes  its  presence  evident 
even  to  the  blind !  When  I  consider  this,  if  I  am  unable  to 
be  very  joyful,  nevertheless  not  only  do  I  not  succumb  to 
grief,  but  so  do  I  strive  night  and  day  to  give  aid  with 
unceasing  labor,  that  things  may  soon  hope  to  be  that  the 


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men  of  today  may  be  versed  in  all  the  fine  arts,  and  in 
medicine,  also,  and  that  whoever  is  very  studious,  unless  he 
is  deficient,  may  be  worthy  to  vie  with  the  ancients. 

"Let  them  grieve,  let  them  malign,  let  them  oppose  as 
much  and  as  often  as  they  wish, — the  envious,  the  ignorant, 
and  the  uncultured  ones.     'Very  well'  (Greek). 

"Now  then  accept  what,  in  accordance  with  our  present 
means,  we  are  giving  double  measure,  in  one  volume  of 
dictionaries  where  one  may  see  what  is  included  in  the 
front  of  the  book.  If,  perchance,  these  are  rather  well  done, 
find  this  out  by  reading  and  look  for  a  great  etymology. 

"Watch  for  Sudas,  Pollux,  Pausanias,  Stephanus,  and 
other  good  ones  which  we  purpose  with  care  to  publish 
shortly:  all  the  best  Greeks  successively.  Now,  with  our 
funds,  the  ten  comedies  of  Aristophanes  with  the  best  com- 
mentaries are  being  undertaken.  Likewise,  we  are  soon 
beginning  Sudas,  and  all  the  letters  of  the  greatest  scholars 
in  one  volume;  the  Rhetoric  of  Hermogenes  and  the  Pro- 
gymnasmata  of  Aphthonius,  and  in  addition  to  these 
and  Aristotle's  Commentaries,  all  that  is  extant  in  medicine 
of  Galenus. 

"But  although  I  know  certainly,  that  very  many  will 
mention,  when  they  read  these  promises  of  ours,  the  Ovidian 
lUud  of  Pollices,  'Whoever  will,  assumes  to  be  rich,'  never- 
theless I  bear  it  calmly,  since  indeed,  with  the  will  of  Jesus 
Christ,  our  very  good  and  great  lord,  these  and  much 
greater  works  will  be  seen  which  I  am  preparing  and 
constructing. 

"Meanwhile  it  is  your  affair,  oh  students,  friends,  and 
patrons  of  our  province:  if  you  desire  your  Aldus  as  a 
strength  for  yourselves  for  a  learning  that  is  passing  away, 
to  be  published  more  easily  with  funds  for  the  printing, — 
with  your  funds,  show  your  appreciation  of  our  books,  nor 
spare  the  expense.  So,  in  short,  at  one  and  the  same  time 
will  we  be  giving  to  each  other.  And  remember  what  the 
most  noble  poet  Hesiod  says.     This  is,  '  Give  when  anyone 


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shall  have  given  to  you,  when  anyone  shall  not  have  given, 
do  not  give.  To  the  one  giving,  everyone  has  given,  and 
to  him  who  gives  not,  no  one  has  given.'  " 

The  Well-Bred  Scholar,  or  Practical  Essays  on  the  Best 
Methods  of  Improving  the  Taste,  and  Assisting  the  Exer- 
tions of  Youth  in  their  Literary  Pursuits.  By  William 
Milns.     New  York,  1797. 

"To  the  Superintendents  of  Schools.  Gentlemen,  in 
dedicating  to  you  the  following  essays  on  poHte  literature, 
I  am  influenced  by  a  stronger  motive  than  the  mere  pro- 
priety of  such  an  address.  Aware  of  the  prejudices  usually 
conceived  by  the  ignorant,  the  envious,  and  the  illiberal, 
against  every  new  attempt  to  render  the  way  to  learning 
either  shorter,  or  smoother,  I  wish  to  submit  the  sketches 
of  my  plan  to  the  judgment  of  those  only  who  are  best 
qualified  to  decide  on  its  reasonableness,  without  considering 
whether  it  has  long  use  for  its  authority  or  not.  Such 
persons  well  know  that  men  would  differ  very  little  from 
brutes,  and  soon  be  at  a  stand  in  their  attainments,  if  they 
did  not  derive  from  experience  some  helps  for  accelerating 
the  progress  of  the  human  mind,  and  correcting  the  inju- 
dicious methods  of  those  who  went  before  them.  Hoary- 
headed  error,  said  an  eloquent  statesman,  is  not  on  that 
account  venerable,  nor  has  long-continued  absurdity  any 
prescriptive  claim  to  respect  (Edmund  Burke). 

"Such  are  the  principles,  on  which  I  have  ventured  to 
leave  the  beaten  track,  and  to  oppose  in  many  instances 
the  prevalence  of  custom.  My  design,  however,  is  not  to 
write  strictures  on  the  established  modes  of  public  or  private 
instruction,  but  simply  to  explain  those  which  I  have  found 
most  successful  in  real  practice.  Should  they  prove  service- 
able to  other  teachers  in  the  discharge  of  some  of  the  most 
important  duties  of  society,  I  shall  think  my  humble  la- 


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hours  very  amply  rewarded.     I  remain,  Gentlemen,  with, 
sincere  respect,  your  most  obedient  Servant, 

"William  Milns." 

Gradus  ad  Cantabrigiam :  or,  A  Dictionary  of  Tenns,  .  .  . 
Used  at  the  University  of  Cambridge.  Anonymous. 
London,  1803. 

DEDICATION 

"To  all  to  whom  this  Gradus  may  come,  Greeting:  in  an 
especial  manner,  to  all  young  Gentlemen  Freshmen  of  the 
most  ancient  and  renowned  University  of  Cambridge." 

The  History  of  Harvard  University.  By  Josiah  Quincy. 
1840. 

"To  the  Alumni  of  Harvard  University  this  work  is 
respectfully  dedicated  by  the  author." 

The  Atomic  Theory.     By  Charles  Daubeny.     1850. 

"To  the  memory  of  John  Dalton,  F.R.S.,  Late  President 
of  the  Literary  and  Philosophical  Society  of  Manchester, 
Corresponding  Member  of  the  Academy  of  Sciences  of  the 
Royal  Institute  of  France,  and  Honorary  D.C.L.  of  the 
University  of  Oxford,  the  framer  of  a  theory  with  respect 
to  the  mode  of  combination  between  bodies,  which  stands 
foremost  among  the  discoveries  of  the  present  age,  for  the 
universality  of  its  applications,  and  the  importance  of  its 
practical  results;  holding  the  same  kind  of  relation  to  the 
science  of  chemistry,  which  the  Newtonian  system  does  to 
that  of  mechanics;  and  throwing  light,  not  only  upon  all 
the  ordinary  subjects  of  mechanical  investigation,  but  even 
upon  those  more  speculative  questions  with  respect  to  the 
constitution  of  matter,  which  seem  to  lie  beyond  the  reach 
of  experimental  inquiry;  this  essay,  which  in  a  less  mature 
form  was  honored  by  his  approval,  is  now  inscribed,  as  a 


To  Teachers  and  Students  219 


slight  tribute  to  his  posthumous  reputation  by  his  former 
friend  and  devoted  admirer,  the  Author." 

The  Lyrical  Dramas  of  iEschylus.     Translated  into  English 
Verse  by  John  Stuart  Blackie.     1850. 

"To  his  Excellency,  the  Chevalier  Bunsen,  and  to  Edward 
Gerhard,  Royal  Archaeologist,  Berlin,  the  friends  of  his 
youth,  and  the  directors  of  his  early  studies,  these  pages 
are  dedicated  by  the  translator." 

A  Natural  History  of  British  Grasses.     By  Edward  Joseph 
Lowe.     1858. 

"To  J.  Dalton  Hooker,  Esq.,  M.D.,  F.R.S.,  F.L.S.,  of 
the  royal  gardens,  Kew;  so  eminently  distinguished  for  his 
knowledge  of  botany,  and  so  universally  esteemed  for  the 
assistance  he  is  ever  willing  to  render  to  his  fellow-laborers, 
the  present  work  on  the  Grasses  of  Great  Britain  is  with 
permission  respectfully  dedicated  by  the  author." 

The  Roman  and  the  Teuton:  A  Series  of  Lectures  De- 
livered before  the  University  of  Cambridge.    By  Charles 
Kingsley.     1864. 
"Dedicated  to  the  gentlemen  of  the  University  who  did 

me  the  honour  to  attend  these  lectures." 

Alttestamentliche     Theologie.      By     Hermann     Schultz. 
Frankfort,  1869. 

"To  the  Reverend  Theological  Faculty  of  the  Georgia 
Augusta  in  Gottingen,  this  book  is  dedicated  by  the  author 
as  an  expression  of  thanks  for  the  Degree  of  Doctor  in 
Theology,  conferred  upon  him,  December  30,  1865." 

Geology  and  Physical  Geography  of  Brazil.     By  Charles 
Frederick  Hartt.     1870. 

"To  Professor  Louis  Agassiz,  Director  of  the  Thayer 
Expedition. 


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"My  dear  Sir: 

"I  have  the  honour  to  offer  you  this  voliune  on  the 
Geology  and  Physical  Geography  oj  Brazil  as  a  summary  of 
the  scientific  results  of  my  explorations  as  an  attache  of 
the  Thayer  Expedition,  together  with  those  of  a  second 
private  expedition, — the  natural  outgrowth  of  the  former, 
— made  to  continue  investigations  which  I  had  been  obliged 
to  leave  unfinished. 

"I  take  this  opportunity  of  acknowledging  my  deep 
indebtedness  to  you  for  the  interest  you  have  taken  in  my 
scientific  studies,  for  your  constant  wise  counsel  and  advice, 
and  for  a  thousand  kindnesses  received  at  your  hands. 
With  the  highest  consideration  and  respect,  I  have  the 
honor  to  be,  my  dear  Sir, 

"Yotu  former  pupil, 

"Charles  Frederick  Hartt. 

"Cornell  University, 
"May  30,  1870." 

Heat,  a  Mode  of  Motion.     By  John  Tyndall.     1870. 

"To  his  friend  and  teacher,  Robert  Bunsen,  this  book  is 
dedicated  by  John  Tyndall." 

Contributions  to  Molecular  Physics  in  the  Domain  of 
Radiant  Heat.     By  John  Tyndall.     1873. 

"To  Henry  Bence  Jones,  M.D.,  D.C.L.,  F.R.S.,  Hon. 
Sec.  R.  I. 

"If  unswerving  devotion  to  the  Royal  Institution,  firstly, 
and  above  all,  as  a  school  of  original  enquiry,  and  secondly 
as  an  organ  for  the  diffusion  of  scientific  knowledge,  merit 
the  grateful  recognition  of  its  Members  and  its  Professors, 
then  justice  ought  to  require  no  stimulus  from  friendship, 
in  associating  these  researches  with  your  name. 

"They  were  one  and  all  conducted  on  the  spot  whence, 
during  sixty  years,  issued  in  unbroken  succession  the  labours 


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of  Young,   Davy,  and  Faraday.     Would  that  they  were 
worthy  of  their  immortal  antecedents ! 

"John  Tyndall. 

"Royal  Institution, 
"May,  1872." 

Modern  Heroes  of  the  Mission  Field.     By  W.  Pakenham 
Walsh,  D.D.     1879. 

"To  the  young  men  of  our  day  and  generation,  and  more 
especially  to  the  students  of  our  Universities,  th  s  volume 
is  affectionately  inscribed." 

Flowers   and   Flower   Lore.     By  the   Reverend   Hilderic 
Friend.     1884. 

"  As  a  proof  of  gratitude  and  in  admiration  of  his  profound 
erudition,  this  book  is  dedicated  (by  kind  permission)  to 
F.  Max  Miiller,  M.A.,  professor  of  comparative  philology 
at  Oxford,"  etc. 

Poverty  and  the  State,  or  Work  for  the  Unemployed.     By 
Herbert  V.  Mills.     1886. 

"To  my  friend.  Professor  Adamson,  M.A.,  of  the  Victoria 
University,  Manchester,  who  first  awoke  within  me  a 
passion  for  the  science  of  human  economy,  this  book  is 
gratefully  dedicated." 

The  Discovery  of  America.     By  John  Fiske.     1892. 

"To  Edward  Augustus  Freeman: 

"A  scholar  who  inherits  the  gift  of  Midas,  and  turns  into 
gold  whatever  subject  he  touches,  I  dedicate  this  book, 
with  gratitude  for  all  that  he  has  taught  me." 

The    Dialogues    of    Plato.     Translated    into    English    by 
Benjamin  Jowett.     1892. 

"To  my  former  pupils  in  Balliol  College  and  in  the  Uni- 
versity of  Oxford,  who  during  thirty  years  have  been  the 


222  Dedications 


best  of  friends  to  me,  these  volumes  are  inscribed,  in  grate- 
ful recognition  of  their  never  failing  attachment," 

The  Geology  and  Palaeontology  of  Queensland  and  New 
Guinea.  By  Robert  L.  Jack  and  Robert  Etheridge* 
1892. 

"Dedicated  to  the  memory  of  three  worthy  pioneers  in 
Australian  geology,  Samuel  Stutchbury,  William  Branwhite 
Clarke,  and  Richard  Daintree." 

The  Higher  Criticism  of  the  Hexateuch.  By  Charles  A. 
Briggs.     1893. 

"To  Francis  Brown,  DD.,  Davenport  Professor  of 
Hebrew  and  the  Cognate  Languages  in  the  Union  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  New  York,  pupil,  colleague,  successor, 
and  true  yoke-fellow,  this  book  is  dedicated  in  trust  and 
love." 

From  the  Greeks  to  Darwin.  By  Henry  Fairfield  O  shorn. 
1894. 

"To  my  revered  teacher  in  philosophy,  James  McCosh, 
Ex-President  of  Princeton  College." 

Open-Air  Studies.     By  Grenville  A.  J.  Cole.     1895. 

"To  Richard  Whately  Dickinson. 

"This  little  book  was  in  my  mind  all  the  time  that  we 
were  studying  together.  So  I  dedicate  it  to  you  and  to  all 
those  who  like  seeing  things  for  themselves  in  the  open 
air." 

Thomas  Cranmer.     By  Arthur  James  Mason.     1898. 

"To  the  reverend  and  learned,  the  Master  and  Fellows 
of  Jesus  College,  I  offer  this  slight  acknowledgment  of  the 
extreme  kindness  with  which  they  have  welcomed  me  into 
the  society  of  which  Cranmer  was  twice  fellow." 


To  Teachers  and  Students  223 

The  Works  of  Geofifrey  Chaucer.  Edited  by  Alfred  W. 
Pollard,  H.  Frank  Heath,  Mark  H.  Liddell,  and  W.  S. 
McCormick.     1898. 

"To  Frederick  James  Fumivall,  Ph.D. 

"Founder  and  Director  of  the  Chaucer  and  Early  EngHsh 
Text  Societies,  this  popular  edition  of  the  Poet  for  whom  he 
has  done  so  ranch  is  ded  cated  in  gratitude  and  esteem." 

Another  Decade  in  the  History  of  Union  Theological  Semi- 
nary.    By  the  Reverend  George  Prentiss,  D.D.     1899. 

"Dedicated  to  all  true  lovers  of  the  divinely  given  rights 
and  liberties  of  Christian  thought  and  scholarship." 

Can  I  Believe  in  God  the  Father?  By  William  Newton 
Clarke.     1899. 

"To  my  eager  fellow-students,  the  members  of  the  first 
Harvard  Summer  School  of  Theology." 

The  Gospel  for  a  World  of  Sin.  By  Henry  Van  Dyke. 
1899, 

"To  James  Ormsbee  Murray,  Dean  of  Princeton  Univer- 
sity, a  teacher  of  literature  and  life,  a  preacher  of  righteous- 
ness and  love,  a  servant  of  htimanity  and  Christ, — this 
book  is  dedicated  in  grateful  affection." 

The  Students*  Life  of  Jesus.  By  the  Reverend  George  H. 
Gilbert.     1900. 

"To  all  earnest  students  of  the  Immortal  Theme." 

The  Great  Epic  of  India.     By  Edward  Washburn  Hopkins. 

1901.     (Yale  Bicentennial  Publications.) 

"This  series  of  volumes  is  respectfully  dedicated  to  the 
Graduates  of  the  University." 

Cherry.     By  Booth  Tarkington.     1903. 

"To  the  diligent  and  industrious  members  of  the  class 
of  '93  at  Nassau  Hall,  also  to  the  id  er  spirits  who  wasted 


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the  Golden  Hours  of  Youth  in  profitless  playing  of  toss- 
the-ball;  and  even  to  those  more  dissolute  ones  who  risked 
the  tutor's  detection  at  pitch-the-penny  and  carved  their 
names  on  Adam's  table, — in  brief,  to  all  of  that  happy  class 
is  dedicated  this  heroic  tale  of  the  days  when  Commence- 
ment came  in  September." 

Architectural  Shades  and  Shadows.     By  Henry  McGood- 
win.     1904. 

"To  Professor  Francis  W.  Chandler,  of  Massachusetts 
Institute  of  Technology,  whose  kindly  influence  has  long 
been  an  aid  and  an  inspiration  to  hundreds  of  those  young 
architects  who  are  engaged  in  the  effort  to  fitly  establish, 
their  art  in  America,  and  to  excel  in  it,  this  book  is  respect- 
fully inscribed." 

Christian  Theology  in  Outline.     By  William  Adams  Brown, 
Ph.D.,  D.D.     1906. 

"To  my  students,  past  and  future,  in  gratitude  and  hope." 

Commentary  on  the  Book  of  Psalms.     By  the  Reverend 
Charles  A.  Briggs,  D.D.     1906. 

"To  John  Crosby  Brown,  Esq.,  and  D.  Willis  James, 
Esq.,  President  and  Vice-President  of  the  Board  of 
Directors  of  the  Union  Theological  Seminary,  this  work 
is  dedicated  in  recognition  of  their  eminent  services  to 
theological  education,  and  to  liberty  of  Christian  scholar- 
ship during  the  thirty-three  years  of  the  author's 
professorate." 

The  Mikado's  Empire.     By  William  Elliot  Griffis,  D.D. 
1906. 

"To  Japanese  lovers  of  knowledge  in  every  age :  the  dead, 
who  first  kindled  the  sacred  fire,  who  passed  on  the  torch; 
the  martyrs,  who  suffered  death  for  their  loyalty,  patriotism, 


To  Teachers  and  Students  225 


devotion  to  national  unity,  restoration,  and  regeneration; 
the  students,  who,  in  noble  thirst  for  truth,  found  honoured 
graves  in  alien  soil;  the  living,  with  whom  rests  the  future 
of  their  beautiful  land, — this  sketch  of  their  country  and 
people,  made  in  the  interest  of  truth,  and  set  down  without 
extenuation  or  malice,  is,  with  fraternal  regard,  dedicated 
by  their  comrade  and  friend,  the  Author." 

A  History  of  Chemical  Theories  and  Laws.  By  Matthew 
Moncrieff  Pattison  Muir.     1907. 

"To  the  memory  of  the  Master  Antoine  Laiirent  Lavoi- 
sier I  dedicate  this  history  of  parts  of  the  science  which  it 
was  his  glory  to  form  from  the  materials  gathered  by  him- 
self and  by  many  who  went  before  him  during  more  than 
two  thousand  years." 

The  Oxford  Book  of  English  Verse,  1250-1900.  Chosen 
and  Edited  by  A.  T.  Quiller-Couch.     1907. 

"To  the  president,  fellows  and  scholars  of  Trinity  Col- 
lege, Oxford,  a  house  of  learning,  ancient,  Hberal,  humane, 
and  my  most  kindly  nurse." 

The  Teacliings  of  Thomas  Henry  Huxley.  By  Irving 
Wilson  Voorhees.     1907. 

"To  Henry  Van  Dyke,  teacher  of  literature  and  life, 
lover  of  philosophy  and  friendship,  this  book  is  gratefully 
inscribed  by  his  former  pupil,  the  Author," 

Rara  Arithmetica:  A  Catalogue  of  the  Arithmetics  Written 
before  the  Year  MDCI,  with  a  Description  of  those  in 
the  Library  of  George  Arthur  Plimpton  of  New  York. 
By  David  Eugene  Smith.     1908. 

"To  the  learned  and  d'stinguished  man,  George  Arthur 
Plimpton,  Master  of  Arts,  lover  of  the  older  books,  friend  of 
authors,  companion  of  the  learned,  loving  patron  of  letters." 

(From  the  Latin.) 
IS 


226  Dedications 


Against  the  Current.     By  Edward  A.  Steiner.     19 lo. 

"To  President  John  Hanson  Thomas  Main,  the  embodi- 
ment of  the  ideals  of  Grinnell  College,  who,  although  of 
different  race  and  lineage,  is  to  me  a  friend  and  brother, — • 
I  dedicate  this  book  on  the  anniversary  of  our  first  meeting." 

Seven  Great  Statesmen.     By  Andrew  D.  White.     1910. 

"To  Goldwin  Smith,  scholar,  historian,  statesman,  in 
remembrance  of  his  self-sacrificing  championship  of  the 
American  Union  in  its  time  of  peril,  of  his  inspiring  teach- 
ings at  Oxford  and  at  Cornell,  and  of  his  long  life  devoted 
to  truth,  justice,  rational  liberty,  and  right  reason." 

Characteristics  of  Existing  Glaciers.  By  William  Herbert 
Hobbs.     191 1. 

"To  Professor  Victor  Goldschmidt  of  the  University 
of  Heidelberg,  a  leader  in  scientific  research,  a  gifted  and 
inspiring  teacher,  and  a  noble  and  generous  friend,  this 
book  is  affectionately  dedicated  by  the  author." 

The  Progress  of  Physics  during  Thirty-three  Years  (1875- 
1908).  Four  Lectures  Delivered  to  the  University  of 
Calcutta.     By  Arthur  Schuster.     191 1. 

"This  volume  is  dedicated  to  the  honourable  Mr.  Justice 
Asu^"osh  Mukhopadhyaya,  Saraswati,  C.S.I.,  M.A.,  D.L., 
D.Sc,  Vice- Chancellor  of  the  University  of  Calcutta,  in 
acknowledgment  of  the  services  he  has  rendered  to  un  ver- 
sity  education  in  India." 

An  Outline  of  the  History  of  Christian  Thought  since  Eant. 
By  Edward  Caldwell  Moore.     1912. 

"To  Adolf  Harnack,  on  his  sixtieth  birthday,  by  his 
first  American  pupil." 


To  Teachers  and  Students  227 


Literature  of  the  New  Generation.    By  Gyofu  Soma.     1912. 

' '  To  my  honored  teacher,  Professor  Hogetsu  Shimamura, 
is  this  volume  dedicated," 

The  dedication  of  books  is  a  custom  borrowed  very  recently  by 
the  Japanese  from  the  West,  and  is  used  only  by  Christian  writers 
or  by  those  non -Christians  who  have  studied  in  the  West  and 
become  imbued  with  the  spirit  of  Western  literature. 

The  Scott  Originals.     By  William  S.  Crockett.     1912. 

"To     Daniel    Aitkenhead,     schoolmaster-emeritus     of 
Earlston. 

"  Dear  Maister — ^From  the  ABC 
To  Greek  and  grand  Latinity 
You  drave  the  lessons  into  me. 

"Old  Homer  strung  his  lyre  langs3me, 
Quintus  Horatius  sang  divine, 
In  that  lore-haunted  school  of  thine. 

"Back  in  those  thirty  years  agone 
Heard  I  the  call  of  Marmion 
And  claimed  the  Wizard  for  my  own. 

"And  all  the  great  heart- stirring  lays 
Filled  up  the  fountain  of  your  praise, 
Ambition  in  my  breast  to  raise. 

"You  led  your  Scholar  up  the  hill 
Of  learning,  with  a  joyous  will — 
His  heart  is  with  the  Maister  still." 

Dedications  to  Teachers  and  Students  seem  to  invite  to  solem- 
nity of  utterance.  There  is  one  dedication  to  students,  of  less  serious 
tone:  English  as  She  is  Spoke — "Who  then  the  little  book  for  the 
care  of  what  we  wrote  him  and  for  her  typographical  corrections, 
intended  for  the  studious  youth,  at  whom  we  dedicate  him  par- 
ticularly." 


XI 
Uo  ButbotB 


229 


XI 

Uo  Hutbors 

Alcilia.     Philoparthen^s  Loving  Folly.    By  Samuel  Page. 
1619. 

"To  my  approved  and  much  respected  friend,  Iz[aac] 
Wa[lton] : 

"To  thee,  thou  more  than  thrice  beloved  friend, 
I  too  unworthy  of  so  great  a  blisse; 
These  harsh- tun' d  Hnes  I  here  to  thee  commend, 
Thou  being  cause  it  is  now  as  it  is, 
For  hadst  thou  held  thy  tongue,  by  silence  might 
These  have  been  buried  in  oblivion's  night. 

"If  they  were  pleasing,,!  would  call  them  thine, 
And  disavow  my  title  to  the  verse; 
But  being  bad,  I  needs  must  call  them  mine. 
No  ill  thing  can  be  clothed  in  thy  verse. 
Accept  them  then,  where  I  have  offended 
Rase  thou  it  out,  and  let  it  be  amended." 
(Quoted  from  Prefaces,  Dedications,  Epistles,  by  Henry  Huth,  1874.) 

She  Stoops  to  Conquer.    By  Oliver  Goldsmith.     1773. 

"To  Samuel  Johnson,  LL.D. 

"Dear  Sir, 

"By  inscribing  this  slight  performance  to  you,  I  do  not 
mean  so  much  to  compliment  you  as  myself.  It  may  do 
me  some  honour  to  inform  the  public,  that  I  have  lived 

231 


232  Dedications 


many  years  in  intimacy  with  you.  It  may  serve  the  inter- 
ests of  mankind  also  to  inform  them,  that  the  greatest  wit 
may  be  found  in  a  character,  without  impairing  the  m.ost 
unaffected  piety. 

"I  have,  particularly,  reason  to  thank  you  for  your  par- 
tiality to  this  performance.  The  undertaking  of  a  comedy, 
not  merely  sentimental,  was  very  dangerous;  and  Mr. 
Colman,  who  saw  the  piece  in  its  various  stages,  always 
thought  it  so.  However,  I  ventured  to  trust  it  to  the  public; 
and,  though  it  was  necessarily  delayed  till  late  in  the  season, 
I  have  every  reason  to  be  grateful. 

"I  am,  dear  Sir,  your  most  sincere  friend,  and  admirer, 

"Oliver  Goldsmith." 

Colman,  the  manager,  had  been  most  dilatory  in  making  arrange- 
ments for  the  play,  and  it  was  Dr.  Johnson  who  finally  persuaded 
him,  by  the  exercise  of  "a  kind  of  force,"  to  promise  that  it  should 
be  produced.  He  continued  to  regard  it  as  a  dangerous  experiment, 
however,  even  going  so  far  as  to  announce  its  expected  failure  in  the 
box-office.  Johnson  and  other  friends  of  Goldsmith  went  in  force 
to  support  the  play;  but  their  efforts  were  not  needed,  for  it  was 
'"prodigiously"  successful.  "All  eyes,"  says  Cumberland,  "were 
upon  Johnson,  who  sate  in  a  front  row  of  a  side-box,  and  when  he 
laughed,  everybody  thought  themselves  warranted  to  roar."  Gold- 
smith, walking  about  disconsolately'outside,  was  prevailed  upon  to 
go  in  only  at  theopening  of  the  last  act,  just  in  time  to  hear  asolitary 
hiss.  Colman,  glad  to  have  some  excuse  for  his  forebodings,  told 
the  alarmed  author  not  to  be  afraid  of  a  squib,  "when  we  have 
been  sitting  these  two  hours  on  a  barrel  of  gunpowder." 


The  Giaour:  A  Fragment  of  a  Turkish  Tale.     By  Lord 
Byron.     1813. 

"To  Samuel  Rogers,  Esq.  As  a  sHght  but  most  sincere 
token  of  admiration  for  his  genius,  respect  for  his  character, 
and  gratitude  for  his  friendship,  this  production  is  inscribed 
by  his  obliged  and  affectionate  servant,  Byron. 

"London,  May,  1813." 


To  Authors  233 


Poems.     By  John  Keats.     1817. 

"to  LEIGH  HUNT,  ESQ." 

"Glory  and  loveliness  have  passed  away; 

For  if  we  wander  out  n  early  morn, 

No  wreathed  incense  do  we  see  upborne 
Into  the  east,  to  meet  the  smiling  day: 
No  crowd  of  nymphs  soft  voic'd  and  young,  and  gay, 

In  woven  baskets  bringing  ears  of  corn, 

Roses,  and  pinks,  and  violets,  to  adorn 
The  shrine  of  Flora  in  her  early  May. 
But  there  are  left  delights  as  high  as  these. 

And  I  shall  ever  bless  my  destiny, 
That  in  a  time,  when  under  pleasant  trees 

Pan  is  no  longer  sought,  I  feel  a  free, 
A  leafy  luxury,  seeing  I  could  please 

With  these  poor  offerings,  a  man  like  thee." 

"On  the  evening  when  the  last  proof-sheet  was  brought  from  the 
printer,  it  was  accompanied  by  the  information  that  if  a  'dedica- 
tion to  the  book  was  intended  it  must  be  sent  forthwith. '  Where- 
upon he  [Keats]  withdrew  to  a  side-table,  and  in  the  buzz  of  a 
mixed  conversation,  ...  he  composed  and  brought  to  Charles 
Oilier,  the  publisher,  the  Dedication  Sonnet  to  Leigh  Hunt." 
(Quoted  from  Recollections  of  Writers  by  Charles  and  Mary  Cowden 
Clarke,  in  Volume  IV  of  Buxton  Forman's  edition  of  Keats.) 

The  first  sonnet  in  Leigh  Hunt's  Foliage,  etc.  (i 8 1 8)  is  in  a  manner 
a  reply  to  this  dedication : 

"to  JOHN  KEATS." 

'"T  is  well  you  think  me  truly  one  of  those, 
Whose  sense  discerns  the  loveliness  of  things; 
For  surely  as  I  feel  the  bird  that  sings 
Behind  the  leaves,  or  dawn  as  it  up  grows, 
Or  the  rich  bee  rejoicing  as  he  goes, 
Or  the  glad  issue  of  emerging  springs. 
Or  overhead  the  glide  of  a  dove's  wings, 
Or  turf,  or  trees,  or  midst  of  all,  repose; 


234  Dedications 


And  surely  as  I  feel  things  lovelier  still, 
The  human  look,  and  the  harmonious  form 
Containing  woman,  and  the  smile  in  ill. 
And  such  a  heart  as  Charles's,  wise  and  warm, — 
As  surely  as  all  this,  I  see,  ev'n  now. 
Young  Keats,  a  flowering  laurel  on  your  brow." 

Endymion :  A  Poetic  Romance.     By  John  Keats.     1818. 

"Inscribed  to  the  Memory  of  Thomas  Chatterton." 

The  original  dedication,  which  was  rejected,  together  with  the 
original  preface,  by  Keats,  upon  the  unfavorable  verdict  of  Rey- 
nolds and  other  friends,  was  as  follows: 

"Inscribed,  with  every  feeling  of  pride  and  regret  and  with  'a 
bowed  mind,'  to  the  memory  of  the  most  English  of  poets  except 
Shakespeare,  Thomas  Chatterton." 

To  this  dedication,  the  rejected  preface  referred  in  these  terms: 
"One  word  more — for  we  cannot  help  seeing  our  own  affairs  in 
every  point  of  view — should  anyone  call  my  dedication  to  Chatter- 
ton aflfected  I  answer  as  f olloweth : 

"'Were  I  dead,  sir,  I  should  like  a  Book  dedicated  to  me.'" 

In  regard  to  the  preface,  Keats  wrote  to  Reynolds,  April  9,  181 8, 
"Since  you  all  agree  that  the  thing  is  bad,  it  must  be  so";  and  in 
the  same  letter  he  gave  the  simpler  dedication  as  the  one  to  be 
published. 

The  Cenci.     By  Percy  Bysshe  Shelley.     1819. 

"To  Leigh  Hunt,  Esq. 

"My  dear  Friend, — I  inscribe  with  your  name,  from  a 
distant  country,  and  after  an  absence  whose  months  have 
seemed  years,  this  the  latest  of  my  literary  efforts. 

"Those  writings  which  I  have  hitherto  published  have 
been  little  else  than  visions  which  impersonate  my  own 
apprehensions  of  the  beautiful  and  the  just.  I  can  also 
perceive  in  them  the  literary  defects  incidental  to  youth 
and  impatience;  they  are  dreams  of  what  ought  to  be  or 
may  be.  The  drama  which  I  now  present  to  you  is  a  sad 
reality.  I  lay  aside  the  presumptuous  attitude  of  an 
instructor  and  am  content  to  paint,  with  such  colours  as 
my  own  heart  furnishes,  that  which  has  been. 


To  Authors  235 


"Had  I  known  a  person  more  highly  endowed  than 
yourself  with  all  that  it  becomes  a  man  to  possess,  I  had 
solicited  for  this  work  the  ornament  of  his  name.  One 
more  gentle,  honourable,  innocent  and  brave;  one  of  more 
exalted  toleration  for  all  who  do  and  think  evil,  and  yet, 
himself  more  free  from  evil;  who  knows  better  how  to 
receive  and  how  to  confer  a  benefit,  though  he  must  ever 
confer  far  more  than  he  can  receive;  one  of  simpler,  and, 
in  the  highest  sense  of  the  word,  of  purer  life  and  manners, 
I  never  knew;  and  I  had  already  been  fortunate  in  friend- 
ships when  your  name  was  added  to  the  list. 

"  In  that  patient  and  irreconcilable  enmity  with  domestic 
and  political  tyranny  and  imposture  which  the  tenor  of 
your  life  has  illustrated,  and  which,  had  I  health  and  talents, 
should  illustrate  mine,  let  us,  comforting  each  other  in  our 
task,  live  and  die. 

"All  happiness  attend  you! 
"Your  affectionate  friend, 

"Percy  B.Shelley. 

"Rome,  May  29,  1819." 

In  offering  this  dedication  to  Hunt,  Shelley  wrote:  "I  have 
written  something  and  finished  it,  different  from  anything  else, 
and  a  new  attempt  for  me;  and  I  mean  to  dedicate  it  to  you.  I 
should  not  have  done  so  without  your  approbation,  but  I  asked 
your  picture  last  night,  and  it  smiled  assent.  If  I  did  not  think 
it  in  some  degree  worthy  of  you,  I  would  not  make  you  a  public 
offering  of  it." 

Sardanapalus :  A  Tragedy.    By  Lord  Byron.     1821. 

"To  the  illustrious  Goethe  a  stranger  presumes  to  offer 
the  homage  of  a  literary  vassal  to  his  Hege  lord,  the  first  of 
existing  writers,  who  has  created  the  literature  of  his  own 
country,  and  illustrated  that  of  Europe.  The  unworthy 
production  which  the  author  ventures  to  inscribe  to  him  is 
entitled  Sardanapalus." 


236  Dedications 


Byron  had  been  greatly  pleased  with  the  praise  Goethe  bestowed 
on  Manfred  (1817),  in  his  Kunst  und  AUherthum.  Of  this  dedica- 
tion Goethe  wrote: 

"Well  knowing  myself  and  my  labors,  in  my  old  age,  I  could  not 
but  reflect  with  gratitude  and  diffidence  on  the  expressions  con- 
tained in  this  dedication,  nor  interpret  them  but  as  the  generous 
tribute  of  a  superior  genius,  no  less  original  in  the  choice  than 
inexhaustible  in  the  materials  of  his  subjects." 

Philosophy  in  Sport  Made  Science  in  Earnest.    By  John 
Ayrton  Paris.     1827. 

"  To  Miss  Maria  Edgeworth. 

"Madam, 

"To  whom  can  a  work,  which  professes  to  blend  amuse- 
ment with  instruction,  be  dedicated  with  so  much  propriety, 
as  to  one,  whose  numerous  writings  have  satisfactorily 
demonstrated  the  practicability  and  value  of  such  a  union; 
— to  one  who  has  stripped  Romance  of  her  meretricious 
trappings,  and  converted  her  theatre  into  a  temple  worthy 
of  Minerva?  Justly  has  it  been  observed,  that  to  the 
magic  pens  of  Madame  d'Arblay,  and  yourself,  we  are 
indebted  for  having  the  Novel  restored  to  its  consequence, 
and,  therefore,  to  its  usefulness;  and  I  may  be  allowed  to 
add,  that  your  Harry  and  Lucy  have  shown  how  profitably 
and  agreeably,  the  machinery  of  fiction  may  be  worked 
for  the  dissemination  of  truth. 

"That  a  life  which  has  been  so  honourable  to  yourself,  and 
so  serviceable  to  the  Commonwealth,  may  be  long  extended, 
and  deservedly  enjoyed,  is  the  fervent  wish  of  the  author." 

Don  Quixote.     Paris,  1827. 

"To  the  happy  writer,  the  chosen  of  the  muses,  to  the 
all-famous,  the  wonderful  and  nimitable  author  of  the 
ingenious  Hidalgo  Don  Quixote  de  ^a  Mancha,  is  erected 
and  dedicated  this  little  monument  of  modern  typography 
and  chalcography  by  his  passionate  admirer,  Joaquin 
Maria  de  Ferrer." 


To  Authors  237 


Eugene  Aram:  A  Tale.     By  Lord  Lytton.     1831. 

"To  Sir  Walter  Scott,  Bart.,  etc.  etc. 

"Sir, 

"It  has  long  been  my  ambition  to  add  some  humble 
tribute  to  the  offerings  laid  upon  the  shrine  of  your 
genius.  At  each  succeeding  book  that  I  have  given  to 
the  world,  I  have  paused  to  consider  if  it  were  worthy  to 
be  inscribed  with  your  great  name,  and  at  each  I  have 
played  the  procrastinator,  and  hoped  for  that  morrow 
of  better  desert  which  never  came.  But  defluat  amnis, 
the  time  runs  on — and  I  am  tired  of  waiting  for  the  ford 
which  the  tides  refuse.  I  seize,  then,  the  present  oppor- 
tunity, not  as  the  best,  but  as  the  only  one  I  can  be 
sure  of  commanding,  to  express  that  affectionate  admira- 
tion with  which  you  have  inspired  me  in  common  with  all 
your  contemporaries,  and  which  a  French  writer  has  not 
ungracefully  termed  '  the  happiest  prerogative  of  genius. ' 
As  a  Poet,  and  as  a  Novelist,  your  fame  has  attained 
to  that  height  in  which  praise  has  become  superfluous; 
but  in  'the  character  of  the  writer  there  seems  to  me  a 
yet  higher  claim  to  veneration  than  in  that  of  the  writ- 
ings. The  example  your  genius  sets  us,  who  can  emulate? 
— the  example  your  moderation  bequeaths  to  us,  who  shall 
forget?  That  nature  must  indeed  be  gentle  which  has 
conciliated  the  envy  that  pursues  intellectual  greatness, 
and  left  without  an  enemy  a  man  who  has  no  living  equal 
in  renown. 

"You  have  gone  for  a  while  from  the  scenes  you  have 
immortalized,  to  regain,  we  trust,  the  health  which  has 
been  impaired  by  your  noble  labors,  or  by  the  manly 
struggles  with  adverse  fortunes,  which  have  not  found  the 
frame  as  indomitable  as  the  mind.  Take  with  you  the 
prayers  of  all  whom  your  genius,  with  playful  art,  has 
soothed  in  sickness — or  has  strengthened,  with  generous 
precepts,  against  the  calamities  of  life. 


238  Dedications 


'"Navis  quae  tibi  creditum 
Debes  Virgilium — 
Reddas  incolumem ! ' 
"You,  I  feel  assured,  will  not  deem  it  presumptuous  in 
one,  who,  to  that  bright  and  undying  flame  which  now 
streams  from  the  grey  hills  of  Scotland, — the  last  halo  with 
which  you  have  crowned  her  literary  glories, — has  turned 
from  his  first  childhood  with  a  deep  and  unrelaxing  devo- 
tion: you,  I  feel  assured,  will  not  deem  it  presumptuous  in 
him  to  inscribe  an  idle  work  with  your  illustrious  name: — 
a  work  which,  however  worthless  in  itself,  assumes  some- 
thing of  value  in  his  eyes  when  thus  rendered  a  tribute  of 
respect  to  you. 

"The  Author  of  'Eugene  Aram.' 
"London,  December  22,  1831." 

This  was  written  at  the  time  of  Scott's  visit  to  Italy,  after  the 
great  blows  to  his  health  and  his  fortune. 

The  Music  of  Nature,  or  an  Attempt  to  Prove  that  what  Is 
Passionate  and  Pleasing  in  the  Art  of  Singing,  Speaking, 
and  Performing  upon  Musical  Instruments,  is  Derived 
from  the  Sounds  of  the  Animated  World.  By  William 
Gardiner.     1832. 

"To  Thomas  Moore,  Esq. 
"My  dear  Sir, 

"In  dedicating  this  work  to  you,  I  am  well  aware  that 
the  sanction  of  your  name  will  confer  upon  it  an  honor 
much  above  its  merits;  but  to  whom  could  I  address  my 
performance  with  so  much  propriety,  as  to  our  greatest 
Lyric  Poet,  who  has  united  the  Music  of  Nature  to  his 
verse,  with  a  success  unattained  by  any  other  writer  of 
the  present  age. 

"I  am,  dear  Sir,  with  great  regard, 

"Your  obliged  and  faithful  Servant, 

"William  Gardiner. 
"Leicester,  June  4th,  1832." 


To  Authors  239 


Bells    and    Pomegranates.     No.    I.    Pippa    Passes.     By 
Robert  Browning.     1841. 

"Two  or  three  years  ago  I  wrote  a  play,  about  which  the 
chief  matter  I  much  care  to  recollect  at  present  is,  that  a 
Pitfull  of  good-natured  people  applauded  it:  ever  since,  I 
have  been  desirous  of  doing  something  in  the  same  way 
that  should  better  reward  their  attention.  What  follows, 
I  mean  for  the  first  of  a  series  of  Dramatical  Pieces,  to  come 
out  at  intervals;  and  I  amuse  myself  by  fancying  that  the 
cheap  mode  in  which  they  appear,  will  for  once  help  me  to 
a  sort  of  Pit-audience  again.  Of  course  such  a  work  must 
go  on  no  longer  than  it  is  liked;  and  to  provide  against  a 
too  certain  and  but  too  possible  contingency,  let  me  hasten 
to  say  now — what,  if  I  were  sure  of  success,  I  would  try 
to  say  circumstantially  enough  at  the  close — that  I  dedi- 
cate my  best  intentions  most  admiringly  to  the  Author  of 
Ion — most  affectionately  to  Sergeant  Talfourd. 

"Robert  Browning." 
After  the  first  performance  of  Ion,  in  1835,  there  was  a  gathering 
at  Talfourd's  house;  and  Talfourd  included  Browning — known 
then  only  as  the  author  of  Pauline  and  Paracelsus — with  Words- 
worth and  Landor,  who  were  present,  in  a  toast  to  the  "poets  of 
England." 

Colombe*s  Birthday.     By  Robert  Browning.     1844. 

"No  one  loves  and  honours  Barry  Cornwall  more  than 
does  Robert  Browning;  who,  having  nothing  better  than 
this  play  to  give  him  in  proof  of  it,  must  say  so." 

Luria.     By  Robert  Browning.     1846. 

"  I  dedicate  this  last  attempt  for  the  present  at  Dramatic 
Poetry  to  a  Great  Dramatic  Poet ;  '  Wishing  what  I  write 
may  be  read  by  his  Hght ' ;  if  a  phrase  originally  addressed, 
by  not  the  least  worthy  of  his  contemporaries,  to  Shake- 
speare, may  be  applied  here,  by  one  whose  sole  privilege  is 
in  a  grateful  admiration,  to  Walter  Savage  Landor." 


240  Dedications 


Landor's  Lines  to  Robert  Browning  had  appeared  in  the  Morning 
Chronicle  for  November  22,  1845: 

"There  is  delight  in  singing,  tho'  none  hear 
Beside  the  singer;  and  there  is  delight 
In  praising,  tho'  the  praiser  sit  alone, 
And  see  the  prais'd  far  off  him,  far  above. 
Shakespeare  is  not  our  poet,  but  the  world's; 
Therefore  on  him  no  speech !  and  brief  for  thee, 
Browning!     Since  Chaucer  was  alive  and  hale, 
No  man  hath  walked  along  our  roads  with  step 
So  active,  so  inquiring  eye,  or  tongue 
So  varied  in  discourse.     But  warmer  climes 
Give  brighter  plumage,  stronger  wing;  the  breeze 
Of  Alpine  heights  thou  playest  with,  borne  on 
Beyond  Sorrento  and  Amalfi,  where 
The  Siren  waits  thee,  singing  song  for  song." 

Life  and  Works  of  Thomas  Cole.    By  Louis  L.  Noble. 
1853. 

"To  Wm.  Cullen  Bryant,  Esq.,  whose  Pen,  with  the 
pencil  of  Cole,  is  alike  identified  with  American  Scenery, 
this  volume  is  respectfully  inscribed." 

Songs  of  the  Cavaliers.     By  Walter  Thornbury.     1857. 

"To  Douglas  Jerrold,  the  Dramatist,  Satirist,  and 
Novelist,  these  verses  are  dedicated  by  the  author,  from 
one  who  is  struggling  and  hopes  to  win,  to  one  who  has 
struggled  and  has  won." 

(Quoted  from  Wheatley's  Dedication  of  Books.) 

The  Complete  Works  of  William  Shakespeare.    Edited 
by  the  Reverend  Alexander  Dyce.     1857. 

"To  John  Forster,  Esq.,  Historian,  Biographer,  and 
Critic,  this  edition  of  Shakespeare,  in  grateful  acknowledg- 
ment of  the  zeal  with  which  he  promoted  its  publication, 

is  inscribed  by  his  friend, 

"Alexander  Dyce." 


To  Authors  241 

The  Life  and  Times  of  Bertrand  du  Guesclin.     By  David 
F.  Jamison.     1864. 

"To  W.  Gilmore  Simms,  Esq.,  LL.D. 

"My  dear  Sir: 

"In  looking  abroad  for  one  to  whom  I  might  inscribe 
this  volume,  I  know  of  no  one  to  whom  I  can  more  worthily 
dedicate  it  than  to  you — to  you,  my  nearest  neighbour  and 
one  of  my  oldest  friends;  to  you,  who  first  suggested  the 
work  as  one  suited  to  my  capacity,  my  tastes,  and  to  what 
httle  learning  I  possessed;  who  watched  over  its  progress 
with  scarcely  less  interest  than  if  it  had  been  your  own; 
and  who  cheered  me  on,  through  the  years  of  labour  it  has 
cost  me,  to  its  final  completion  now. 

"To  me  it  will  be  a  pleasing  reflection  that  we,  who  have 
lived  under  the  same  sky,  who  have  looked  to  Heaven  for 
the  same  refreshing  rains,  and  for  its  grateful  sunshine; 
that  we,  who  have  so  long  interchanged  our  thoughts  on 
questions  of  deep  interest,  and  who  have  sympathized  in 
each  other's  joys  and  sorrows, — should  have  our  names 
associated  in  the  minds  of  men,  when  we  shall  no  longer  be 
affected  either  by  their  praise  or  their  censure — 

'"Inque  sepulchro, 
Sinon  urna,  tamen  junget  nos  littera.     Sinon 
Ossibus  ossa  meis,  at  nomen  nomine  tangam. ' 

"Ever  most  truly  yours, 

"D.  F.  Jamison. 

"Burwood,  Feb.  17,  1862." 

Selections  from  the  Poetical  Works  of  Robert  Browning. 
1872. 

"Dedicated  to  Alfred  Tennyson. 

"In  Poetry — illustrious  and  consummate; 
In  Friendship — noble  and  sincere." 
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242  Dedications 


Myths  and  Myth  Makers.     By  John  Fiske.     1872. 

"To  my  dear  friend,  William  Dean  Howells,  in  remem- 
brance of  pleasant  autumn  evenings  spent  among  were- 
wolves and  trolls  and  nixies,  I  dedicate  this  record  of  our 
adventures." 

Darwinism  and  Other  Essays.     By  John  Fiske.     1879. 

"To  Thomas  Henry  Huxley,  in  remembrance  of  three 
happy  days  at  Petersham,  among  the  Blue  Hills  of  Massa- 
chusetts, and  of  many  pleasant  fireside  chats  in  London, 
I  dedicate  this  little  book." 

The  Bay  of  Seven  Islands.    By  John  Greenleaf  Whittier, 
1882. 

"To  my  friend  and  neighbor,  Harriet  Prescott  Spofford, 
whose  poems  have  lent  a  new  interest  to  our  beautiful 
river  valley. 

"From  the  green  Amesbury  hill  which  bears  the  name 
Of  that  half  mythic  ancestor  of  mine 
Who  trod  its  slopes  two  hundred  years  ago, 
Down  the  long  valley  of  the  Merrimac, 
Midway  between  me  and  the  river's  mouth, 
I  see  thy  home,  set  like  an  eagle's  nest 
Among  Deer  Island's  immemorial  pines, 
Crowning  the  crag  on  which  the  sunset  breaks 
Its  last  red  arrow.     Many  a  tale  and  song. 
Which  thou  hast  told  or  sung,  I  call  to  mind, 
Softening  with  silvery  mist  the  woods  and  hills, 
The  out-thrust  headlands  and  inreaching  bays 
Of  our  northeastern  coast-line,  trending  where 
The  Gulf,  midsummer,  feels  the  chill  blockade 
Of  icebergs  stranded  at  its  northern  gate. 

"To  thee  the  echoes  of  the  Island  Sound 
Answer  not  vainly,  nor  in  vain  the  moan 


To  Authors  243 


Of  the  South  Breaker  prophesying  storm. 
And  thou  hast  Hstened,  like  myself,  to  men 
Sea-periled  oft  where  Anticosti  lies 
Like  a  fell  spider  in  its  web  of  fog, 
Or  where  the  Grand  Bank  shallows  with  the  wrecks 
Of  sunken  fishers,  and  to  whom  strange  isles 
And  frost-rimmed  bays  and  trading  stations  seem 
Familiar  as  Great  Neck  and  Kettle  Cove, 
Nubble  and  Boon,  the  common  names  of  home. 
So  let  me  offer  thee  this  lay  of  mine, 
Simple  and  homely,  lacking  much  thy  play 
'  Of  color  and  of  fancy.     If  its  theme 
And  treatment  seem  to  thee  befitting  youth 
Rather  than  age,  let  this  be  my  excuse: 
It  has  beguiled  some  heavy  hours  and  called 
Some  pleasant  memories  up;  and,  better  still, 
Occasion  lent  me  for  a  kindly  word 
To  one  who  is  my  neighbor  and  my  friend." 

Airs   from   Arcady   and   Elsewhere.     By   Henry   Cuyler 
Bunner.     1884. 

"to  BRANDER  MATTHEWS:  BY  THE  HEARTH. 

"The  night  is  late;  your  fire  is  whitening  fast, 
Oiu:  speech  has  silent  spaces  and  is  low; 
Yet  there  is  much  to  say  before  I  go — 
And  much  is  left  unsaid,  dear  friend,  at  last. 

"Yet  something  may  be  said.     This  fading  fire 
Was  never  cold  for  me;  and  never  cold 
Has  been  the  welcoming  glance  I  knew  of  old — 
Warm  with  a  friendship  usage  could  not  tire. 

"  Take  these,  the  gathered  songs  of  striving  years, 

And  many  fledged  and  warmed  beside  your  hearth; 
Not  for  whatever  they  may  have  of  worth — 
A  simpler  tie,  perchance,  my  work  endears. 


244  Dedications 

"With  them  this  wish:  that  when  your  days  shall  close, 
Life,  a  well-used  and  well-contented  guest, 
May  gently  press  the  hand  I  oft  have  pressed, 
And  leave  you  by  Love's  fire  to  calm  repose." 

Poems  of  the  Principal  Foreign  Authors  Rendered  into 
Spanish.    By  Jaime  Marti-Miquel.    Madrid,  1885. 

"To  Victor  Hugo: 

"Your  name  has  issued  from  my  pen  and  my  lips  many 
times;  on  the  other  hand,  your  recognition  will  never  go 
out  from  my  memory. 

"Accepting  this  offering,  you  will  prove  to  me  that  I  do 
you  justice,  confiding  in  your  benevolence. 

"The  grain  of  sand,  if  it  does  not  aspire  to  fuse  itself  in 
the  sun,  ought  not  to  solicit  the  heat  of  its  rays." 

Tiresias  and  Other  Poems.  By  Alfred,  Lord  Tennyson.  1885. 

"To  my  good  friend,  Robert  Browning,  whose  genius 
and  geniality  will  best  appreciate  what  may  be  best  and 
make  most  allowance  for  what  may  be  worst,  this  volume 
is  affectionate' y  dedicated." 

"It  is  characteristic  of  a  certain  shyness  in  Tennyson  that  he 
never  told  Browning  of  the  dedication,  and  it  was  not  until  the 
book  was  in  the  hands  of  the  public,  that  the  latter  learned  the 
circumstance  from  a  friend."  {Alfred,  Lord  Tennyson,  by  Arthur 
Waugh,  1893.) 

Movements  of  Religious  Thought  in  Britain  during  the 
Nineteenth  Century.    By  John  Tulloch.     1885. 

"  To  Mrs.  Oliphant,  Author  of  '  The  Chronicles  of  Carling- 
ford,'  'A  Beleaguered  City,'  'Life  of  Edward  Irving,* 
'The  Literary  History  of  England,  1 790-1825,'  etc. 

"My  dear  Mrs.  Oliphant, 

"It  is  a  great  pleasure  to  me  to  be  allowed  to  associate 
your  name  with  these  Lectures.     Slight  as  they  are,  I  have 


To  Authors  245 


been  reminded  more  than  once,  during  their  preparation, 
of  a  large  subject  which  used  to  engage  our  discussion  many 
years  ago,  and  in  the  treatment  of  which  you  were  to  bear 
what  would  have  proved  by  far  the  most  interesting  part. 
This,  like  many  other  projects,  is  not  now  likely  to  be 
attempted;  but  the  thought  of  it  has  brought  you  and  our 
long  friendship  much  to  my  mind. 

"If  I  were  to  express  all  the  admiration  I  feel  for  your 
genius,  and  still  more  all  the  esteem  I  have  learned  to 
cherish  for  your  character,  I  should  use  language  which  I 
know  you  would  refuse  to  read ;  but  I  may  at  least  be  allowed 
to  say  thus  publicly,  that  I  know  of  no  writer  to  whose 
large  powers,  spiritual  insight,  and  purity  of  thought,  and 
subtle  discrimination  of  many  of  the  best  aspects  of  our 
social  life  and  character,  our  generation  owes  so  much  as 
it  does  to  you. 

"Always  faithfully  yours, 

"John  Tulloch. 

"University,  St.  Andrews, 
"August  1885." 

Our  Sentimental  Journey  through  France  and  Italy.     By 
Joseph  and  Elizabeth  Pennell.     1888. 

"To  Lawrence  Sterne,  Esq. 

"Dear  Sir, — 

"We  never  should  have  ventured  to  address  you,  had 
we  not  noticed  of  late  that  Mr.  Andrew  Lang  has  been 
writing  to  Dead  Authors,  not  one  of  whom — to  our  knowl- 
edge,— has  taken  offence  at  this  liberty.  Encouraged  by 
his  example,  we  beg  leave  to  dedicate  to  you  this  history 
of  our  journey,  laying  it  with  the  most  respectful  humility 
before  your  sentimental  shade,  and  regretting  it  is  without 
that  charm  of  style  which  alone  can  make  it  worthy. 

"And  as,  in  our  modesty,  we  would  indeed  be  unwilling 
to  trouble  you  a  second  time,  we  must  take  advantage  of 
this  unhoped-for  opportunity  to  add  a  few  words  of  explan- 


246  Dedications 


ation  about  our  journey  in  your  honor.  It  is  because  of 
the  conscientious  fidelity  with  which  we  rode  over  the 
route  made  ever  famous  by  you,  that  we  have  included 
ourselves  in  the  class  of  Sentimental  Travellers,  of  which 
you  must  ever  be  the  incomparable  head.  To  other  senti- 
ment, dear  Sir,  whatever  we  may  have  thought  in  the 
enthusiasm  of  setting  out,  we  now  know  we  can  lay  no 
claim.  Experience  has  taught  us  that  it  depends  upon  the 
man  himself,  and  not  upon  his  circumstances  or  surround- 
ings. Nowadays  the  manner  of  travelling  through  France 
and  Italy  is  by  rail,  and  mostly  on  Cook's  tickets,  and 
chaises  have  become  a  luxury  which  we  at  least  cannot 
afford.  The  only  vehicle  by  which  we  could  follow  your 
wheel-tracks  along  the  old  post-roads  was  our  tricycle 
an  ingenious  machine  of  modem  invention,  endeared  to 
us,  because  without  it,  our  Sentimental  Journey  would 
have  been  an  impossibility.  In  these  degenerate  days, 
you.  Sir,  we  are  sure,  would  prefer  it  to  a  railway  carriage, 
as  little  suited  to  your  purposes  as  to  those  of  Mr.  Ruskin 
— an  author  whose  rare  and  racy  sayings  you  would  no 
doubt  admire,  were  you  still  interested  in  earthly  literature. 
Besides,  in  a  tandem,  with  its  two  seats,  there  would  be 
nothing  to  stir  up  a  disagreeable  sensation  within  you. 
You  would  still  have  a  place  for  'the  lady.' 

"Because  it  was  not  possible  to  follow  you  in  many  ways, 
we  have  spared  no  pains  to  be  faithful  in  others.  We  left 
out  not  one  city  which  you  visited,  and  it  was  a  pleasure 
to  learn  that  the  world  is  still  as  beautiful  as  you  found  it, 
though  to-day  most  men  of  culture  care  so  little  for  what 
is  about  them,  they  would  have  us  believe  all  beauty  belongs 
to  the  past.  .  .  .  And  again,  dear  Sir,  as  it  was  your  invari- 
able custom  to  borrow  the  thoughts  and  words  of  any 
writer  who  particularly  pleased  you — a  custom  your  ene- 
mies have  made  the  most  of — we  have  not  hesitated  to  use 
any  pictures  of  other  men,  or  any  descriptions  and  expres- 
sions in  your  works,  that  seemed  appropriate  to  the  record 


To  Authors  247 


of  our  journey.  More  honest  than  you,  Sir,  we  have  given 
credit  to  the  artists,  that  their  names  may  enhance  the 
value  of  our  modest  offering.  But  as  you  will  recognize 
your  own  words  without  our  pointing  them  out,  we  have 
not  even  put  them  into  quotation  marks,  an  omission  which 
you  of  all  men  can  best  appreciate. 

"In  conclusion:  we  think  you  may  be  pleased  to  hear 
something  of  your  last  earthly  resting-place  in  the  burying- 
ground  belonging  to  St.  George's,  Hanover  Square.  We 
made  a  pilgrimage  to  it  but  a  few  Sundays  ago.  Though 
your  grave  was  neglected  until  the  exact  spot  is  no  longer 
known,  the  stone,  since  raised  near  the  place,  is  so  often 
visited  that,  though  it  stands  far  from  the  path,  a  way  to 
it  has  been  worn  in  the  grass  by  the  feet  of  the  many  who 
have  come  to  breathe  a  sigh  or  drop  a  tear  for  poor 
Yorick.  .  .  . 

"We  have  the  honor  to  be,  dear  Sir,  your  most  obedient 
and  most  devoted  and  most  humble  servants, 

"Joseph  Pennell 
"Elizabeth  Robins  Pennell." 
In  and  Out  of  Three  Normandy  Inns.     By  Anna  Bowman 

Dodd.     1892. 

"To  Edmund  Clarence  Stedman. 

"My  dear  Mr.  Stedman: 

"To  this  little  company  of  Normandy  men  and  women, 
you  will,  I  know,  extend  a  kindly  greeting,  if  only  because 
of  their  nationality.  To  your  courtesy,  possibly,  you  will 
add  the  leaven  of  interest,  when  you  perceive — as  you  must 
— that  their  qualities  are  all  their  own,  their  defects  being 
due  solely  to  my  own  imperfect  presentment. 
"With  sincere  esteem, 

"Anna  Bowman  Dodd." 
The    Sin-Eater    and    Other    Tales,     By    Fiona    Macleod 

(William  Sharp).     1895. 

"To  George  Meredith,  in  gratitude  and  homage,  and 
because  he  is  Prince  of  Celtdom." 


248  Dedications 


Firdausi  in  Exile,  and  Other  Poems.  By  Edmund  Gosse. 
1896. 

DEDICATION  TO  AUSTIN   DOB  SON. 

"  Neighbour  of  the  near  domain, 
Stay  awhile  your  passing  wain ! 
Though  to  give  is  more  your  way, 
Take  a  gift  from  me  to-day ! 
From  my  homely  store  I  bring 
Signs  of  my  poor  husbanding ; — 
Here  a  spike  of  purple  phlox, 
Here  a  spicy  bunch  of  stocks. 
Mushrooms  from  my  moister  fields, 
Apples  that  my  orchard  yields, — 
Nothing, — for  the  show  they  make, 
Something, — for  the  donor's  sake; 
Since  for  ten  years  we  have  been 
Best  of  neighbours  ever  seen. 
We  have  fronted  evil  weather, 
Nip  of  critic's  frost  together ; 
We  have  shared  laborious  days. 
Shared  the  pleasantness  of  praise; 
Brother  not  more  kind  to  brother. 
We  have  cheered  and  helped  each  other; 
Till  so  far  the  fields  of  each 
Into  the  other's  stretch  and  reach. 
That  perchance  when  both  are  gone 
Neither  may  be  named  alone.  " 

The  Pursuit  of  the  House-Boat,  being  Some  Further  Account 
of  the  Divers  Doings  of  the  Associated  Shades,  under 
the  Leadership  of  Sherlock  Holmes,  Esq.  By  John 
Kendrick  Bangs.     1899. 

"To  A.  Conan  Doyle,  Esq.,  with  the  author's  sincerest 
regards,  and  thanks  for  the  untimely  demise  of  his  great 
detective,  which  made  these  things  possible." 


To  Authors  249 


A  Boy  I  Knew,  Four  Dogs,  and  Some  More  Dogs.     By 
Laurence  Hutton.     1900. 

"To  Mark  Twain,  the  creator  of  Tom  Sawyer,  one  of 
the  best  boys  I  ever  knew." 

The  Ways  of  Men.    By  Eliot  Gregory.     1900. 

TO  EDITH  WHARTON 

"'I  have  not  lacked  thy  mild  reproof, 
Nor  golden  largess  of  thy  praise. '  " 

Donegal  Fairy  Stories.     By  Seumas  MacManus.     1900. 

"It  is  a  humble  disciple  who  dedicates  with  great  rever- 
ence this  little  book  to  the  memory  of  those  Gaelic  shana- 
chies  who  have  kept  alive  for  us — through  love  of  country 
and  love  of  story- telling  only — the  fine  ancient  tales  of  our 
race,  from  age  to  age  and  from  generation  to  generation." 

Poems.    By  John  B.  Tabb.     1900. 

"aye,  SIDNEY  LANIER" 

"Ere  Time's  horizon-line  was  set, 
Somewhere  in  space  our  spirits  met. 
Then  o'er  the  starry  parapet  came  wandering  here. 
And  now,  that  thou  art  gone  again 
Beyond  the  verge,  I  haste  amain 
(Lost  echo  of  a  loftier  strain) 
To  greet  thee  there." 

The  Wessex  of  Thomas  Hardy.    By  Bertram  C.  A.  Windle. 
1902. 

"To  the  onlie  begetter  of  this  Wessex,  Thomas  Hardy, 
—these." 


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Letters  from  a  Son  to  his  Self-made  Father.     By  Charles 
Eustace  Merriman.     1903. 

"To  Mark  Twain,  a  ready-made  wit." 

Side-Lights  on  Charles  Lamb.     By  Bertram  Dobell.     1903. 

"To  E.  V.  Lucas,  Esq.,  editor  of  The  Works  of  Charles 
and  Mary  Lamb. 

"A  pleasant  and  a  grateful  task  is  thine, 

Filling  thy  days  with  self-rewarding  toil. 
And  nights  with  dreams  wherein  two  spirits  shine 

Scarce  freer  now  than  then  from  earthly  soil. 
Happy  are  they  thy  loving  care  to  gain, 

Happy  art  thou  whom  fortune  so  has  blest: 
They  would  have  loved  thy  cord'al  heart  and  brain, 

And  kinship  to  themselves  in  thee  confessed. 

"Unlovely  traits  that  cannot  daylight  bear 

Too  oft  deep  search  in  seeming  goodness  shows: 
But  thou  mayst  fearless  seek,  since  only  fair 

Actions  and  thoughts  thy  delvings  can  disclose: 
From  every  shadow  of  dishonor  free, 
Clear  is  their  fame,  and  clear  shall  ever  be." 

The  Book  of  Camping  and  Woodcraft.    By  Horace  Eephart. 
1906. 

"To  the  Shade   of  Nessmuk  in  the  Happy   Hunting 
Ground." 

A  few  lines  from  the  Foreword  explain  the  dedication:  "I  owe 
much,  both  to  the  spirit  and  the  letter  of  that  classic  in  the  literature 
of  outdoor  life,  the  little  book  on  Woodcraft  by  the  late  George  R. 
Sears,  who  is  best  known  by  his  Indian-given  title  of  Nessmuk. 
...  It  is  but  fitting  that  I  should  dedicate  to  the  memory  of  its 
author  this  humble  pendant  to  his  work." 


To  Authors  251 

Lady  Baltimore.     By  Owen  Wister.     1906. 

"To  S.  Weir  Mitchell,  with  the  affection  and  memories 

of  all  my  life." 

The  Industrial  Republic.     By  Upton  Sinclair.     1907. 

"To  H.  G.  Wells,  'the  next  most  hopeful.'  " 

La  Cena  delle  Beffe.     By  Sem.  Benelli.     1910. 

"This  jesting  poem  is  dedicated  to  Giulio-de-Frenzi, 
beloved  Brother,  who  on  the  shifting  sands  of  Art  knows 
well  how  to  trace  and  design  with  h's  sorrowftd  and  ready 
pen  the  limits  of  our  i  Is,  eternal  and  unvarying,  unbounded 
and  monotonous." 

Seven  Short  Plays.     By  Lady  Augusta  Gregory.     191 1. 

"To  you,  W.  B.  Yeats,  good  praiser,  wholesome  dis- 
praiser,  heavy-handed  judge,  open-handed  helper  of  us 
all,  I  offer  a  play  of  my  plays  for  every  night  of  the  week, 
because  you  like  them,  and  because  you  have  taught  me 
my  trade. 

"Abbey  Theatre, 
May  I,  1901." 

The  Creeping  Tides.     By  Kate  Jordan.     19 13. 

"To  John  Masefield: 

"An  expression  of  appreciation,  and  because  years  ago, 
when  shipwrecked  in  New  York,  he  drifted  to  harbor  among 
the  old  streets  of  Greenwich  village,  where  this  story  is  laid. 
'The  tide!  the  tide!  The  tide  be  coming  for  some  on 
us.  It  'ave  someone  every  time  .  .  .  an'  it  come  up. 
It  comes  nearer  .  .  .  and  then  it  spreads.  ...  On  it 
comes  with  a  rush!  With  a  roar!  And  the  claws  stretch- 
ing at  you.  .  .  .  Oh,  it  takes  them!  And  it  goes  over 
them.     Over  them.     One  roaring  rush ! ' 

"  'TheTragedy  of  Man' 

"John  Masefield." 


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Uo  Moinen 

This  chapter  was  originally  planned  to  contain  only  dedications  to 
groups  of  women,  such  as  that  to  "Lady  Needleworkcrs,"  since  those 
to  individual  women  were  naturally  included  under  Friends,  Relatives, 
or  some  other  heading.  But  a  few  individual  women  could  not  easily 
be  classified  in  these  sections, — women  chosen  for  the  honor  of  a  dedica- 
tion because  of  their  intellectual  or  artistic  eminence,  their  heroism  in 
some  crisis,  or  their  devotion  to  some  cause.  Dedications  to  such  women 
as  Sarah  Bernhardt,  and  Lady  Constance  Lytton,  have  therefore  been 
placed  here. 

The  Ladies  Dictionary :  Being  a  General  Entertainment  for 
the  Fair-Sex:  a  Work  Never  Attempted  Before  in  Eng- 
lish.    By  N.  H.     1694. 

"To  the  Ladies,  Gentlewomen,  and  Others  of  the  Fair 
Sex  the  Author  Htmibly  Dedicates  this  following  Work. 
Ladies, — This  Project  of  composing  a  dictionary  for  the 
use  of  the  fair  sex  (which  may  serve  as  a  secret  oracle 
to  Consult  in  all  difficult  Cases)  being  the  First  Attempt 
of  this  kind  that  has  appeared  in  English,  't  is  hoped  't  will 
meet  with  a  Courteous  Reception  from  all,  but  more 
Especially  from  you,  for  whose  sakes  't  was  undertaken; 
and  if  it  receives  any  Favour  at  yotu-  Hands,  I  shall  Attri- 
bute its  Success  in  the  World,  to  the  illustrious  subject 
it  Treats  on;  \-iz.  The  Virtues  and  Accomplishments  of 
your  Sex;  which  are  so  many  and  Admirable,  that  no 
Volume  can  contain  them  in  their  full  Extent.  ...  I 
could  not  therefore  but  conclude  it  the  highest  of  Injuries, 

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that  whereas  the  Actions  of  Men,  had  met  with  so  ample 
and  so  many  memorials,  your  sexes  being  not  inferior  to 
them,  should  meet  with  so  slender  and  so  few,  and  that  to 
Erect  this  monument  to  their  lasting  Glory,  would  be  a 
piece  of  justice  great  as  their  misfortime,  in  not  having  a 
more  Judicious  Recorder  of  their  Worths  then 
"Ladies, 

"Your  Very  Himible 

"  Servant, 

"N.  H." 

The  Tea-Table  Miscellany :  A  Collection  of  Choice  Songs, 
Scots  and  English.    By  Allan  Ramsay.     1724. 

DEDICATION 

"To  ilka  lovely  British  lass, 

Frae  Ladies  Charlotte,  Anne,  and  Jean, 
Down  to  ilk  bonny  singing  Bess, 
Wha  dances  barefoot  on  the  green. 

"  Dear  Lasses, 

"  Yoiir  most  humble  slave, 

Wha  ne'er  to  serve  you  shall  decline, 
Kneeling,  wad  your  acceptance  crave. 
When  he  presents  this  small  propine. 

*'  Then  take  it  kindly  to  your  care, 
Revive  it  with  your  tunefu'  notes: 
Its  beauties  will  look  sweet  and  fair, 
Arising  saftly  through  your  throats. 

"The  wanton  wee  thing  will  rejoice, 
When  tented  by  a  sparkling  eye, 
The  spinet  tinkling  with  her  voice, 
It  lying  on  her  lovely  knee. 


To  Women  257 


"While  kettles  dringe  on  ingles  dour, 
Or  clashes  stay  the  lazy  lass; 
Thir  sangs  may  ward  you  frae  the  sour, 
And  gaily  vacant  minutes  pass. 

"E'en  while  the  tea  's  filled  reeking  round, 
Rather  than  plot  a  tender  tongue, 
Treat  a'  the  circling  lugs  wi'  sound. 
Syne  safely  sip  when  ye  have  sung. 

"  May  happiness  had  up  your  hearts, 
And  warm  you  lang  with  loving  fires: 
May  pow'rs  propitious  play  their  parts, 
In  matching  you  to  your  desires. 

"A.  Ramsay. 
"Edinburgh,  Jan.  i,  1724." 

Treasures  in  Needlework;  Comprising  Instructions  in 
Knitting,  Netting,  Crochet,  Point  Lace,  Tatting,  Braiding, 
and  Embroidery.      By  Mrs.  Warren  and  Mrs.  Cullan. 

(1855?) 

"To  Lady  Needleworkers  throughout  the  world  this  book 
is  dedicated  by  the  authors,  in  the  hope  that  it  may  aid 
in  the  production  of  those  ornamental  and  useful  articles 
that  add  elegance  to  the  boudoir  and  yield  a  profit  to  the 
Fancy  Fair." 

Woman's  Work  in  the  Civil  War.  By  L.  P.  Brockett  and 
Mrs,  Mary  C.  Vaughan.     1868. 

"To  the  loyal  Women  of  America,  whose  patriotic  con- 
tributions, toils,  and  sacrifices,  enabled  their  sisters,  whose 
history  is  here  recorded,  to  minister  relief  and  consolation 
to  our  wounded  and  suffering  heroes;  and  who  by  their 
devotion,  their  labors,  and  their  patient  endurance  of 
privation  and  distress  of  body  and  spirit,  when  called  to 


258  Dedications 


give  up  their  beloved  ones  for  the  Nation's  defense,  have 
won  for  themselves  eternal  honor,  and  the  undying  remem- 
brance of  the  patriots  of  all  time, — we  dedicate  this  volume." 

Introductory  Notes  on  Lying-in  Institutions.     By  Florence 
Nightingale.     1871. 

"To  the  Midwife  Phasnarate: 

"If  I  may  dedicate,  without  'permission,'  these  small 
Notes  to  the  shade  of  Socrates'  mother,  may  I  likewise, 
without  presumption,  call  to  my  help  the  questioning  shade 
of  her  son,  that  I  who  write  may  have  the  spirit  of  question- 
ing aright,  and  that  those  who  read  may  learn,  not  of  me, 
but  of  themselves?  And  further  has  he  not  said,  'The 
midwives  are  respectable  women  and  have  a  character  to 
lose?'  " 

(Quoted  from  Wheatley's  Dedication  of  Books.) 

Mary  and  Martha,  the  Mother  and  the  Wife  of  George 
Washington.     By  Benson  J.  Lossing.     1886. 

"To  my  young  countrywomen  this  brief  sketch  of  the 
lives  of  two  of  the  most  illustrious  exemplars  of  true  woman- 
hood is  dedicated  by  the  Author." 

Poems  on  Several  Occasions.     By  Austin  Dobson.     1889. 

"To  you  I  sing,  whom  towns  immure, 
And  bonds  of  toil  hold  fast  and  sure; — 
To  you  across  whose  aching  sight 
Come  woodlands  bathed  in  April  light, 
And  dreams  of  pastime  premature. 

"And  you,  O  Sad,  who  still  endure 
Some  wound  that  only  Time  can  cure, — 
To  you,  in  watches  of  the  night, 
To  you  I  sing! 


To  Women  259 


"But  most  to  you  with  eyelids  pure, 
Scarce  witting  yet  of  love  or  lure; — 
To  you  with  birdlike  glances  bright, 
Half  paused  to  speak,  half-poised  in  flight; 
O  English  Girl,  divine,  demure, 
To  you  I  sing!" 

Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills.     By  Rudyard  Kipling.     1890. 

"To  the  wittiest  woman  in  India  I  dedicate  this  book." 

The  American  Revolution.     By  John  Fiske.     1891. 

"To  Mrs.  Mary  Hemenway,  in  recognition  of  the  rare 
foresight  and  public  spirit  which  saved  from  destruction 
one  of  the  noblest  historic  buildings  in  America,  and  made 
it  a  centre  for  the  teaching  of  American  history  and  the 
principles  of  good  citizenship,  I  dedicate  this  book," 

The  Old  South  Meeting-House  in  Boston  was  preserved  through 
Mrs.  Hemenway's  eflforts.  In  1879-81,  John  Fiske  gave  a  course 
of  lectures  at  the  Meeting-House  in  aid  of  the  fund  for  its 
preservation. 

Le  Mariage  de  Loti-Rarahu.     By  Pierre  Loti.     1892. 

"To  Mme.  Sarah  Bernhardt. 

"Madame, 

"To  you,  O  shining  one  on  high,  the  obscure  author  of 
Aziyade  humbly  dedicates  this  simple  story  of  tropical 
island  life.  Perchance  from  you  may  fall  a  ray,  which 
will  illuminate  the  story  with  some  of  your  own  poetic 
charm. 

"The  author  was  very  yoimg  when  he  wrote  the  book, 
and  he  places  it  at  yoirr  feet,  Madame,  begging  you  to 
judge  it  with  your  kindest  indulgence." 

Woman's  Share  in  Primitive  Culture.     By  Otis  Tufton 
Mason.     1894. 

"To  all  good  women,  living  or  dead,  who  with  their 
brains  or  by  their  toil  have  aided  the  progress  of  the  world, 
I  dedicate  this  book." 


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The  Life  and  Work  of  Susan  B.  Anthony.  By  Ida  Husted 
Harper.     1899. 

"To  Women,  for  whose  freedom  Susan  B.  Anthony  has 
given  fifty  years  of  noble  endeavor,  this  book  is  dedicated." 

A  later  edition,  published  after  Miss  Anthony's  death,  is  dedi- 
cated to  her  memory. 

The  Woman  Beautiful :  A  Practical  Treatise  on  the  Develop- 
ment and  Preservation  of  Woman's  Health  and  Beauty. 
By  Ella  Adelia  Fletcher.     1900. 

"To  the  lovely  women,  sixty  years  young,  whose  noble 
womanhood  wins  beauty  from  the  passing  years,  this  book 
is  inscribed  in  loving  esteem  and  admiration." 

The  Wrongs  of  Indian  Womanhood.  By  Mrs.  Marcus 
B.  Fuller.     1900. 

"To  the  Christian  women  of  India,  England  and  America 
who  owe  all  they  have  and  all  they  are  to  our  Lord  Jesus 
Christ  in  whom  'there  is  neither  Jew  nor  Greek,  there  is 
neither  bond  nor  free,  there  is  neither  male  nor  female,' 
but  in  whom  all  are  one,  is  this  volume  lovingly  dedicated." 

Woman  in  the  Golden  Ages.  By  Amelia  Gere  Mason. 
1901. 

"To  the  Representative  Women  of  today." 

Life  of  General  Nathan  Bedford  Forrest,  By  John  Allan 
Wyeth,  M.D.     1901. 

"To  Emma  Sanson. 

"A  woman  worthy  of  being  remembered  by  her  country- 
men as  long  as  courage  is  deemed  a  virtue,  who  rode  with 
General  Forrest  in  the  engagement  at  Black  Creek,  May 
2,  1863,  and  by  guiding  his  men  to  an  unguarded  ford, 
enabled  him  to  capture  Colonel  A.  D.  Streight  and  his 
entire  command, — this  volume  is  dedicated  as  a  token  of 
admiration  and  respect." 


To  Women  261 

Francesca  da  Rimini.     By  F.  Marion  Crawford.     1902. 

"To  Madame  Sarah  Bernhardt,  who  by  her  magic 
creation  has  after  six  hundred  years  reincarnated  the 
Soul  of  Francesca,  'Che  piange  e  dice.'  " 

A  Self-made  Man's  Wife:  Her  Letters  to  Her  Son.  Being 
the  Woman's  View  of  a  Certain  Famous  Correspondence. 
1905. 

"To  the  Inconspicuous  Wives  of  Conspicuous  Men  this 
book  is  sympathetically  dedicated." 

The  Incoming  Millions.    By  Howard  B.  Grose.     1906. 

"To  the  Christian  Women  of  America,  whose  mission 
it  is  to  help  save  our  country  by  evangelizing  the  alien 
women,  teaching  the  ideals  of  the  American  Home." 

The  Life  of  Alice  Freeman  Palmer.  By  George  Herbert 
Palmer.     1908. 

"ALICE   FREEMAN   PALMER." 

"'When  fell,  to-day,  the  word  that  she  had  gone, 
Not  this  my  thought:     Here  a  bright  journey  ends, 
Here  rests  a  soul  unresting;  here,  at  last 
Here  ends  that  earnest  strength,  that  generous  life — 
For  all  her  life  was  giving.     Rather  this 
I  said  (after  the  first  swift,  sorrowing  pang) : 
Hence,  on  a  new  quest  starts  an  eager  spirit — 
No  dread,  no  doubt,  unhesitating  forth 
With  asking  eyes;  pure  as  the  bodiless  souls 
Whom  poets  vision  near  the  central  throne 
Angelically  ministrant  to  man; 
So  fares  she  forth  with  smiling,  Godward  face; 
Nor  should  we  grieve,  but  give  eternal  thanks — 
Save  that  we  mortal  are,  and  needs  must  mourn.' 

"Richard  Watson  Gilder. 
"December  2,  1902." 


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The  Position  of  Women  in  Indian  Life.     By  Her  Highness 
the  Maharani  of  Baroda  and  S.  M.  Mitra.     191 1. 

"To  Indian  women  this  work  is  dedicated.     'Women 
must  solve  the  problems  of  humanity.'     Ibsen." 

Woman  and  Labor.     By  Olive  Schreiner.     191 1, 

"dedicated   to    CONSTANCE   LYTTON " 

"'Glory  of  warrior,  glory  of  orator,  glory  of  song 

Paid  with  a  voice  flying  by  to  be  lost  on  an  endless  sea — 
Glory  of  virtue,  to  fight,  to  struggle,  to  right  the  wrong — 
Nay,  but  she  aimed  not  at  glory,  no  lover  of  glory  she ; 
Give  her  the  glory  of  going  on  and  still  to  be. ' 

"Tennyson." 

"De  Aar,  Cape  of  Good  Hope, 
"  South  Africa,  1911." 

On  page  28  of  the  Introduction,  the  author  says  of  Lady  Lytton: 
"I  have  inscribed  it  to  my  friend,  Lady  Constance  Lytton;  not 
because  I  think  it  worthy  of  her,  nor  yet  because  of  the  splendid 
part  she  has  played  in  the  struggle  of  the  women  fighting  to-day 
in  England  for  certain  forms  of  freedom  for  all  women.  It  is,  if 
I  may  be  allowed  without  violating  the  sanctity  of  a  close  personal 
friendship  so  to  say,  because  she,  with  one  or  two  other  men  and 
women  I  have  known,  have  embodied  for  me  the  highest  ideal  of 
human  nature,  in  which  intellectual  power  and  strength  of  will 
are  combined  with  an  infinite  tenderness  and  a  wide  human  sym- 
pathy." One  incident  of  Lady  Lytton 's  career  as  a  militant  suffra- 
gist is  evidence  of  her  democratic  spirit :  believing  that  her  rank  and 
connections  had  brought  her  special  consideration,  during  a  few 
days  of  imprisonment  for  her  share  in  a  demonstration,  she  dis- 
guised herself  as  a  seamstress,  under  the  name  of  Jane  Warton, 
took  part  in  another  demonstration,  was  re-arrested,  and  had  a 
prison  experience  of  much  greater  hardship. 

The  Ladies*  Battle.     By  Molly  Elliot  Seawell.     191 1. 

"To  those  of  my  countrywomen  who  think  for  themselves 
this  little  book  is  dedicated." 


To  Women  263 


Woman  in  Modem  Society.     By  Earl  Barnes.     1912. 

''This  volume  is  dedicated  to  a  woman  endowed  by  her 
ancestors  with  health  and  strength,  reared  by  a  wise  mother, 
trained  to  earn  her  own  living,  and  university  bred,  at  one 
time  an  independent  wage-earner  and  now  equal  partner 
in  the  business  of  a  home,  a  social  force  in  the  life  of  her  com- 
munity, member  of  a  woman's  club,  a  suffragist,  the  devoted 
and  intelligent  mother  of  a  group  of  fine  children,  and  the 
center  of  a  family  which  loves  and  reverences  her  and  finds 
the  deepest  meaning  of  life  in  her  presence." 

Votes  for  Women.     Edited  by  Frederick  and  Emmeline 
Pethick  Lawrence.     1913. 

DEDICATION 

' '  To  the  brave  women  who  to-day  are  fighting  for  freedom : 
to  the  noble  women  who  all  down  the  ages  kept  the  flag 
flying  and  looked  forward  to  this  day  without  seeing  it: 
to  all  women  all  over  the  world,  of  whatever  race,  or  creed, 
or  calling,  whether  they  be  with  us  or  against  us  in  .this 
fight,  we  dedicate  this  paper." 

This  paper  was  the  official  organ  of  the  Women's  Social  and 
Political  Union  of  Great  Britain,  until  the  editors  withdrew  from 
the  extreme  party  among  the  militant  suffragists.  It  advocates 
forms  of  militant  action  without  violence,  and  its  spirit  is  well 
expressed  by  this  dedication. 


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Uo  CbilDren 

A  Treatise  on  the  Astrolabe.    By  Geoffrey  Chaucer.     C. 
1391- 

"Litel  Lewis  my  sone,  I  have  perceived  wel  by  certeyne 
evidences  thyn  abilite  to  lerne  sciencez  touchinge  noum- 
bres  and  proporciouns ;  and  as  wel  considere  I  thy  bisy 
preyere  in  special  to  lerne  the  Tretis  of  the  Astrolabie. 
Than,  for  as  mechel  as  a  philosofre  seith,  '  he  wrappeth 
him  in  his  frend,  that  condescendeth  to  the  ightful  preyers 
of  his  frend,'  ther-for  have  I  geven  thee  a  suffisaunt  Astro- 
labie as  for  oure  orizonte,  compowned  after  the  latitude  of 
Oxenford;  upon  which,  by  mediacion  of  this  litel  tretis,  I 
purpose  to  teche  thee  a  certein  nombre  of  conclusions  ap- 
pertening  to  the  same  instrument." 

Fables.    By  La  Fontaine.     1668. 

"to  monseigneur  the  dauphin" 

"I  sing  the  heroes  of  old  ^sop's  line 
Whose  tale,  though  false  when  strictly  we  define, 
Containeth  truths  it  were  not  ill  to  teach. 
With  me  all  natures  use  the  gift  of  speech; 
Yea,  in  my  work,  the  very  fishes  preach, 
And  to  our  human  selves  their  sermons  suit. 
'T  is  thus  to  come  at  man,  I  use  the  brute. 
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268  Dedications 


"Son  of  a  Prince  the  favourite  of  the  skies, 
On  whom  the  worid  entire  hath  fix'd  its  eyes, 
Who  hence  shall  count  his  conquests  by  his  days, 
And  gather  from  the  proudest  lips  his  praise, 
A  louder  voice  than  mine  must  tell  in  song 
What  virtues  to  thy  kingly  Hne  belong. 
I  seek  thine  ear  to  gain  by  lighter  themes. 
Slight  p'-ctures,  deck'd  in  magic  nature's  beams; 
And  if  to  please  thee  shall  not  be  my  pride, 
I  '11  gain  at  least  the  praise  of  having  tried." 

The  Dauphin,  Louis,  was  at  this  time  a  little  over  six  years  old 
— a  very  beautiful  and  intelligent  child,  according  to  a  contem- 
porary account. 

The  History  of  Little  Goody  Two-Shoes;  Otherwise  Called, 
Mrs.  Margery  Two-Shoes.  With  the  Means  by  which 
she  Acquired  her  Learning  and  Wisdom,  and  in  Conse- 
quence thereof  her  Estate;  set  Forth  at  Large  for  the 
Benefit  of  those, 

Who  from  a  State  of  Rags  and  Care, 
And  having  Shoes  but  half  a  Pair ; 
Their  Fortune  and  their  Fame  would  fix, 
And  gallop  in  a  Coach  and  Six. 

See  the  Original  Manuscript  in  the  Vatican  at  Rome,  and 
the  Cuts  by  Michael  Angela.  Illustrated  with  the  Com- 
ments of  our  great  modern  Critics.  The  Third  Edition. 
London :  Printed  for  J.  Newbery,  at  the  Bible  and  Sun  in 
St  Paul's  Church^Yard.     1766. 

"To  all  Young  Gentlemen  and  Ladies  Who  are  good,  or 
intend  to  be  good,  This  Book  is  inscribed  by  Their  old 
Friend  in  St.  Paul's  Church-yard." 

Many  authorities  believe  this  book  to  have  been  written  by  Oliver 
Goldsmith. 


To  Children  269 


The  Water  Babies.     By  Charles  Kingsley.     1863. 

"To  my  youngest  son,  Grenville  Arthur,  and  to  all  other 
good  little  boys. 

"Come,  read  me  my  riddle,  each  good  little  man: 
If  you  cannot  read  it,  no  grown-up  folks  can." 

The  Ethics  of  the  Dust:  Ten  Lectures  to  Little  Housewives 
on  the  Elements  of  Crystallization.  By  John  Ruskin. 
1865. 

"To  the  real  little  Housewives,  whose  gentle  listening 
and  thoughtful  questioning  enabled  the  writer  to  write 
this  book,  it  is  dedicated  with  his  love. 

"Christmas,  1865." 

A  few  words  from  the  Preface  to  the  first  edition  explain  the 
dedication:  "The  following  lectures  were  really  given  in  sub- 
stance at  a  girls'  school  (far  in  the  country) ;  which,  in  the  course  of 
various  experiments  on  the  possibility  of  introducing  some  better 
practise  of  drawing  into  the  modem  scheme  of  female  education, 
I  visited  frequently  enough  to  enable  the  children  to  regard  me  as 
a  friend." 

Through  the  Looking-Glass,  and  what  Alice  Found  There. 
By  Lewis  Carroll.     1871. 

"Child  of  the  pure  unclouded  brow 
And  dreaming  eyes  of  wonder ! 

Though  time  be  fleet,  and  I  and  thou 
Are  half  a  life  asunder. 

Thy  loving  smile  will  surely  hail 

The  love-gift  of  a  fairy-tale. 

"A  tale  begun  in  other  days, 

When  summer  suns  were  glowing — 
A  simple  chime,  that  served  to  time 

The  rhythm  of  our  rowing — 
Whose  echoes  live  in  memory  yet, 
Though  envious  years  would  say  'forget.' 


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"Come,  hearken  then,  ere  voice  of  dread. 
With  bitter  tidings  laden, 
Shall  summon  to  unwelcome  bed 

A  melancholy  maiden ! 
We  are  but  older  children,  dear, 
Who  fret  to  find  our  bedtime  near. 
•  ••■•.»« 

"  And  though  the  shadow  of  a  sigh 
May  tremble  through  the  story, 
For  *  happy  summer  days '  gone  by, 

And  vanished  stunmer  glory — 
It  shall  not  touch  with  breath  of  bale 
The  pleasance  of  our  fairy-tale." 

Eight  Cousins.     By  Louisa  M.  Alcott.     1874. 

"To  the  many  boys  and  girls  whose  letters  it  has  been 
impossible  to  answer,  this  book  is  dedicated  as  a  peace- 
offering  by  their  friend,  L.  M.  A." 

The  Hunting  of  the  Snark.     By  Lewis  Carroll.     1876. 

"Inscribed  to  a  dear  child  in  memory  of  golden  summer 
hours  and  whispers  of  a  summer  sea. 

"Girt  with  a  boyish  garb  for  boyish  task. 

Eager  she  wields  her  spade :  yet  loves  as  well 
Rest  on  a  friendly  knee,  intent  to  ask 
The  tale  he  loves  to  tell. 

"Rude  spirits  of  the  seething  outer  strife, 

Unmeet  to  read  her  pure  and  simple  spright, 
Deem,  if  you  list,  such  hoiu"s  a  waste  of  life, 
Empty  of  all  delight ! 

"Chat  on,  Sweet  Maid,  and  rescue  from  annoy, 
Hearts  that  by  wiser  talk  are  unbeguiled. 
Ah,  happy  he  who  owns  that  tenderest  joy, 
The  heart-love  of  a  child. 


To  Children  271 


"Away  fond  thoughts,  and  vex  my  soul  no  more! 
Work  claims  my  wakeful  nights,  my  busy  days, — 
Albeit  bright  memories  of  that  sunlit  shore 
Yet  haunt  my  dreaming  gaze!" 

La  Soeur  de  Gribouille.     By  the  Comtesse  de  Segur.     1880. 

"To  my  grand-daughter,  Valentine  de  Segur-Lamoignon. 

"  Dear  child,  I  offer  to  you,  charming,  loved  and  protected, 
the  story  of  a  poor  half-imbecile  boy,  unloved,  and  deprived 
of  everything.  Compare  his  life  to  yours,  and  thank  God 
for  the  difference." 

Ballads  and  Other  Poems.    By  Alfred,  Lord  Tennyson. 
1880. 

"to  ALFRED  TENNYSON,  MY  GRANDSON." 

"  Golden-hair' d  Ally,  whose  name  is  one  with  mine. 
Crazy  with  laughter  and  babble  and  earth's  new  wine, 
Now  that  the  flower  of  a  year  and  a  half  is  thine, 
O  little  blossom,  O  mine,  and  mine  of  mine. 
Glorious  poet  who  never  hast  written  a  line, 
Laugh,  for  the  name  at  the  head  of  my  verse  is  thine. 
May'st  thou  never  be  wrong'd  by  the  name  that  is  mine!" 

''The  Prince  and  the  Pauper.     By  Mark  Twain.     1881. 

"To  those  good-mannered  and  agreeable  children,  Susie 
and  Clara  Clemens,  this  book  is  affectionately  inscribed 
by  their  father." 

Treasure  Island.     By  Robert  Louis  Stevenson.     1884. 

"To  S.  L.  O.,  an  American  gentleman,  in  accordance 
with  whose  classic  taste  the  following  narrative  has  been 
designed,  it  is  now,  in  retium  for  numerous  delightful  hours, 
and  with  the  kindest  wishes,  dedicated  by  his  affectionate 
friend,  the  Author." 


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The  formality  of  this  dedication  becomes  amusing,  when  one 
learns  that  it  was  addressed  to  Stevenson's  thirteen -year-old 
stepson,  Lloyd  Osbourne,  for  whom  he  wrote  Treasure  Island. 
"No  women  in  the  story — Lloyd's  orders,"  wrote  Stevenson  in 
one  of  his  letters. 

Treasure  Island  also  contains  an  address  or  dedication  "To  the 
Hesitating  Purchaser": 

"If  sailor  tales  to  sailor  tunes, 
Storm  and  adventure,  heat  and  cold, 
If  schooners,  islands,  and  maroons 
And  Buccaneers  and  buried  gold, 
And  all  the  old  romance,  retold 
Exactly,  in  the  ancient  way. 
Can  please,  as  me  they  pleased  of  old, 
The  wiser  youngsters  of  to-day, 

"So  be  it,  and  fall  on.     If  not, 
If  studious  youth  no  longer  crave, 
His  ancient  appetites  forgot, 
Kingston,  or  Ballantyne  the  brave, 
Or  Cooper  of  the  wood  and  wave; 
So  be  it,  also!  And  may  I 
And  all  my  pirates  share  the  grave 
Where  these  and  their  creations  lie." 


Davy  and  the  Goblins.    By  Charles  E.  Carrye.     (1885.) 

"to  guy" 

"  Dear  little  Boy,  upon  these  pages  find 
The  tangled  fancies  of  thy  Father's  mind, 
Born  of  the  hours  when  thou,  a  little  child. 
Throned  on  his  knee,  in  breathless  rapture  smiled. 
Hearing  entranced  the  marvels  that  were  told 
Of  Fay  and  Goblin  in  the  days  of  old. 
Would  that  the  glamour  of  those  cloudless  days 
Might  cheer  thee  still,  what  time  the  toilsome  maze 
Of  riper  years  hath  banished  fairy  lore — 
And  blithesome  youth  had  fled  to  come  no  more!" 


To  Children  273 


Midshipman  Bob.     By  E.  L.  Dorsey.     1887. 

"To  boys  in  general,  but  particularly  to  those  who  are 
pluckily  fighting  their  way  against  the  world,  the  flesh, 
and  the  devil,  towards  a  manhood  worthy  of  their  faith, 
their  country,  and  themselves,  this  volume  is  cordially 
dedicated." 

Hygiene  of  the  Nursery.     By  Louis  Starr.     1888. 

"To  my  little  patients,  some  of  whom,  in  the  rapid  passing 
of  time,  may  soon  assume  parental  duties,  this  voltune  is 
affectionately  ded'cated." 

A  White  Umbrella  in  Mexico.     By  F.  Hopkinson  Smith. 
1889. 

"I  dedicate  this  book  to  the  most  charming  of  all  the 
Senoritas  I  know :  the  one  whose  face  lingers  longest  in  my 
memory  while  I  am  away,  and  whose  arms  open  widest 
when  I  return;  the  most  patient  of  my  listeners,  the  most 
generous  of  my  critics,  my  ittle  daughter  Marion." 

Kindergarten  Chimes.     By  Kate  Douglas  Wiggin. 

"To  the  hundreds  of  little  children  who  have  clustered 
round  my  knee,  this  book  is  lovingly  dedicated,  in  the  hope 
that  when  yellow  hair  shall  have  changed  to  silver,  and  the 
dimples  give  place  to  wrinkles,  there  will  still  be  an  echo 
in  their  hearts  of  the  rhymes  and  songs  of  their  childhood 
days." 

Children  of  Wilton  Chase.    By  Elizabeth  Thomas  Meade 
Smith.     1891. 

"This  story  is  dedicated  with  affection  to  Marjory,  a 
child  who,  possessing  a  spirit  of  love  and  service,  has 
inspired  the  idea  of  that  other  Marjory  who  appears  in 
these  pages." 


274  Dedications 


The  Garden  Behind  the  Moon.   By  Howard  Pyle.     1895. 

"To  the  little  boy  in  the  Moon  Garden,  this  book  is 
dedicated  by  his  Father." 

A  Garden  of  Pleasure.     By  E.  V.  B.     1895. 

"To  my  eldest  grandchild,  Cecil  Albinia  Arbuthnot, 
whose  delight  is  in  the  garden,  and  who  made  it  the  Eden 
of  her  childhood." 

The  Hiawatha  Primer.    By  Florence  Holbrook.     1898. 

"To  the  Many  Children  who  have  yet  to  unlock  the 
storehouse  of  the  World's  great  literature,  this  book  is 
dedicated  by  the  author  in  the  hope  that  it  may  serve 
them  as  one  of  many  keys." 

The  Arkansaw  Bear,  a  Tale  of  Fanciful  Adventure,  Told 
in  Song  and  Story  by  A.  B.  Paine,  in  Picture  by  F.  Ver 
Beck.     1898. 

"Dedicated  to  Master  Frank  Ver  Beck,  for  whose  bed- 
time entertainment  the  Arkansaw  Bear  first  performed." 

Little  Pussy  Willow.     By  Harriet  B.  Stowe.     1898. 

"To  Mary,  Emily,  Nellie  and  Charlotte,  and  all  my 
little  girl  friends. 

"Here  is  Pussy  WUlow  n  a  book,  just  as  I  have  pro- 
mised you  she  should  be.  I  send  her  to  you  as  a  Christmas 
and  New  Year's  Present,  and  I  hope  that  you  will  all  grow 
up  to  be  nice  good  girls  like  her,  with  bright  heathy  faces 
and  cheerful  hearts,  and  the  gift  of  always  seeing  'The 
Bright  Side  of  Everything.'" 

The  Lively  City  O'Ligg.    By  Gelett  Burgess.     1899. 

"To  Arnold's  sensitive  taste  and  Robin's  adventurous 
spirit,  these  headlong  fancies  are  fearfully  dedicated." 


To  Children  275 


Marigold  Garden.     By  Kate  Greenaway.     19 — (?), 

"You  little  girl, 
You  little  boy, 
With  wondering  eyes, 
That  kindly  look, 
In  honour  of 
Two  noble  names 
I  send  the  offering 
Of  this  book." 


What  Katy  Did.    By  Susan  Coolidge.     1900. 

"to  five" 

"Six  of  us,  my  dariings,  played  together 
Beneath  green  boughs,  which  faded  long  ago, 
Made  merry  in  the  golden  summer  weather, 
Pelted  each  other  with  new  fallen  snow. 

"So  darlings,  take  this  little  childish  story, 
In  which  some  gleams  of  the  old  stmshine  play, 
And,  as  with  careless  hands  you  turn  the  pages, 
Look  back  and  smile,  as  here  I  smile  today." 

The  Little  ColonePs  Holidays.    By  Annie  Fellows  John- 
ston.    1 90 1. 

"Dedicated  to  'The  Little  Captain'  and  his  sisters, 
whose  proudest  heritage  is  that  they  bear  the  name  of  a 
Nation's  hero." 

Another  Little  Colonel  story  is  dedicated: 

"To  one  of  Kentucky's  dearest  little  daughters.The  Little  Colonel 
herself,  this  remembrance  of  a  happy  summer  is  afiFectionately 
inscribed." 


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Young  Folks  Library,  Vol.  11.,  The  Merry  Maker.  1902. 
(Edited  by  Joel  Chandler  Harris.)  Funny  Leaves  for  the 
Younger  Branches.  By  Baron  Krakemsides  of  Burste- 
nondelafen. 

' '  Younger  Branches : — 

"He  who  creates  laughter  creates  happiness;  come  then 
and  laugh  at  my  doings  and  appreciate  me !  For  where  one 
is  found  willing  and  capable  to  do  so,  thousands  are  found 
whose  only  pleasure  is  to  make  you  cry ! 

"Laughter  is  your  privilege!  Come  then  and  enjoy  it, 
ring  a  chime  of  merry  little  laughs  that  shall  be  heard  after 
afar  off,  and  cheer  the  hearts  of  those  that  love  you !  I  love 
you!  I  therefore  dedicate  my  pen  to  you  and  in  this  my 
book  draw  upon  you  for  thousands  of  laughs !  And  be  sure 
you  honor  my  draughts  as  you  all  have  a  great  fund  at 
your  disposal. 

"Yours  affectionately, 

"Krakemsides, 
"Castle  of  Biu-stenondelafen." 

More  about  Live  Dolls.     By  Josephine  S.  Gates.     1903. 

"Dedicated  to  all  the  wee  Madonnas  wherever  they 
may  be,  whose  pure  sweet  mother  love  for  their  dolls  is  to 
me  a  sacred  thing,  and  whose  hunger  for  them  to  be  alive 
is  most  pathetic." 

The  Better  Way.     By  Charles  Wagner.     1903. 

"To  Pierce  Wagner,  Paris,  Feb.  24,  1884.  Montana, 
Sur-Seine,  August  20,  1899. 

"My  child,  I  began  this  book  by  your  bed  of  pain  and 
in  my  lonely  walks  on  the  mountain. 

"  Many  a  time  I  interrupted  the  writing  to  go  and  do  for 
you  one  of  those  innumerable  little  services  '  at  once  so  sad 
and  so  sweet ' ;  and  away  from  you  in  the  Alpine  pathways, 


To  Children  277 


in  the  high  pastures  and  solitary  midlands,  my  aching  heart 
was  filled  with  your  image. 

"To  you,  then,  I  dedicate  these  pages.  May  they  be 
offered  you  not  as  sad  tokens  of  what  no  longer  is,  but  as 
an  eternal  pledge  between  our  inseparable  souls  and  as  an 
act  of  homage,  that  I  would  were  purer  and  fuller  of  con- 
solation, rendered  from  the  midst  of  a  transitory  world  to 
that  which  never  dies." 

A  Round  Dozen.    By  Susan  Coolidge.     1904. 

"to  vvvw  " 

"Five  little  buds  grouped  round  the  parent  stem, 
Growing  in  sweet  airs,  beneath  gracious  skies. 
Watched  tenderly  from  sunrise  to  sunrise. 
Lest  blight,  or  chill,  or  evil  menace  them. 
Five  small  and  folded  buds,  just  here  and  there 
Giving  a  hint  of  what  the  bloom  may  be. 
When  to  reward  the  long  close  ministry 
The  buds  shall  blossom  into  roses  fair, — 
Soft  dews  fall  on  you,  dears,  soft  breezes  blow, 
The  noons  be  tempered  and  the  snows  be  kind, 
And  gentle  angels  watch  each  stormy  wind, 
And  turn  it  from  the  garden  where  you  grow." 

Bold  Robin  and  his  Forest  Rangers.     By  Caroline  Brown. 
1905. 

"To  four  merry  men,  Robert  and  Richard,  Lewis  and 
William,  lovers  of  the  greenwood  and  faithful  henchn:en 
of  Bold  Robin  Hood,  this  book  is  inscribed." 

Jesus  Christ  and  the  Christian  Character.    By  Francis  G. 
Peabody.     1905. 

"My  darling  boy,  so  early  snatched  away, 
From  arms  still  seeking  thee  in  empty  air, 


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That  thou  shouldst  come  to  me  I  do  not  pray, 
Lest,  by  the  coming,  heaven  should  be  less  fair. 

"Stay,  rather,  in  perennial  flower  of  youth, 
Such  as  the  Master  looking  on,  doth  love : 
And  send  to  me  the  spirit  of  the  Truth, 
To  teach  me  of  the  wisdom  from  above. 

"Beckon  to  guide  my  thoughts,  as  stumblingly, 
They  seek  the  kingdom  of  the  undefiled : 
And  meet  me  at  its  gateway  with  the  key : 
The  unstained  spirit  of  a  little  child." 

Occupations  for  Little  Fingers.     By  Elizabeth  Sage  and 
Anna  M.  Cooley.     1905. 

"To  the  many  little  people  who  will  find  joy  through 
expression." 

Concerning    Paul    and    Fiammetta.     By    Mrs.    L.    Allen 
Harker.     1906. 

"to  morris  and  lindsey  pullar" 

"At  bed- time  when  the  lights  were  low, 
To  your  bedside  I  used  to  go, 
And  tell  this  tale  at  night. 
There  in  your  little  beds  you  lay. 
The  sea  was  green,  the  sky  was  gray 
And  both  your  quilts  were  white." 

Dan  Beard's  Animal  Book.     By  Dan  Beard.     1907. 

"To  my  son,  Daniel  Bartlett  Beard,  the  most  enjoyable 
pet  and  interesting  specimen  I  have  ever  been  fortunate 
enough  to  possess." 


To  Children  279 


Jock  of  the  Bushveld.     By  Sir  Percy  Fitzgerald.     1907. 

"  It  was  the  youngest  of  the  High  Authorities  who  gravely 
informed  the  inquiring  Stranger  that  'Jock  belongs  to  the 
Likkle  People!'  That  being  so,  it  is  clearly  the  duty,  no 
less  than  the  privilege,  of  the  mere  narrator  to  dedicate 
the  Story  of  Jock  to  those  keenest  and  kindest  of  critics, 
best  of  friends,  and  most  delightful  of  comrades,  '  The  Likkle 
People.'  " 

Suppressed  Plates,  Wood  Engravings,  etc.     By    George 
Somes  Layard.     1907. 

' '  I  dedicate  this  book  to  my  two  boys,  John  and  Peter, 
who,  I  sincerely  hope,  will  not  have  so  many  useless  Hob- 
bies as  their  affectionate  father." 

Sing-Song.     A    Nursery    Rhyme    Book.     By    Christina 
Rossetti.     Edition  of  1907. 

"Rhymes  dedicated  without  permission  to  the  Baby 
who  suggested  them." 

Toys  of  Other  Days.     By  Mrs.  F.  Nevill  Jackson.     1908. 

"To  the  Children  of  To-day  we  dedicate  this  story  of 
the  Toys  of  Yesterday." 

Merrylips.     By  Beulah  Marie  Dix.     1910. 

' '  To  every  little  girl  who  has  wished  for  an  hour  to  be  a 
little  boy,  this  story  is  dedicated  by  her  friend  the  Author." 

Flower  Children:  the  Little  Cousins  of  the  Field  and  Gar- 
den.    By  Elizabeth  Gordon.     1910. 

"To  every  child-flower  that  blooms  within  the  glorious 
garden  that  we  call  Home,  this  little  book  is  lovingly 
dedicated." 


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Studies  in  Invalid  Occupation.     By  Susan  E.  Tracy.     191  o. 

"To  William  Maxwell  Houghton,  in  loving  recognition 
of  great  lessons  taught  by  a  little  child." 

Astronomy  from  a  Dipper.     By  Eliot  C.  Clarke.     1910. 

"Dedicated  to  my  grand- daughter,  Alice  de  Vermandois 
Ware,  a  Nova,  who  first  graced  the  celestial  universe  with 
her  presence  on  the  day  that  this  moniunental  astronomical 
work  was  accepted  by  its  publishers." 

There  is  a  picture  of  a  sleeping  baby,  with  the  inscription: 

"nova   BOSTONIiE. 

'■From  observation  24  hours  after  first  appearance." 

Mother  Westwind's  Children.    By  Thornton  W.  Burgess. 
1911. 

"To  all  the  Httle  friends  of  Johnny  Chuck  and  Reddy 
Fox,  and  to  all  who  love  the  green  meadows  and  the  smiling 
pool,  the  laughing  brook,  and  the  merry  little  breezes,  this 
little  book  is  dedicated." 

In  Chimney  Comers.    By  Seumas  MacManus.     191 1. 

"To  our  brave  boys  and  girls,  who  have  fared  forth  from 
their  homes,  travelling  away  and  away,  for  further  than  I 
could  tell  you,  and  twice  further  than  you  could  tell  me, 
into  the  Strange  Land  Beyond,  to  push  their  forttme." 

The    Complete    Nonsense    Book.      By    Edward    Lear. 
(Edition  of  1912.) 

"To  the  great-grandchildren,  grand-nephews,  and  grand- 
nieces  of  Edward,  13th  Earl  of  Derby,  this  book  of  drawings 
and  verses  (the  greater  part  of  which  were  originally  made 
and  composed  for  their  parents)  is  dedicated  by  their  author, 

"Edward  Lear." 


To  Children  281 


A  Sunny  Life.     By  Isabel  C.  Barrows.     1913. 

"To  little  Jtine,  in  memory  of  the  dear  grandfather 
whose  arms  were  never  about  him,  but  whose  warm  heart 
and  sunny  soul  he  has  inherited.  That  he  may  serve  his 
fellowmen  as  faithfully  is  the  prayer  of  '  Nonna. '  " 


XIV 


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XIV 

Uo  fvient>3 

Commentary  on  Isaiah.  By  Heinrich  BuUinger.  Zurich, 
1567. 

"To  Mr.  Wolfgang  Haller,  fellow-priest  and  brother,  also 
faithful  steward  for  the  students,  Heinrich  Bullinger  gave 
(this  book)." 

Bullinger  was  for  over  forty  years  the  Protestant  leader  in  Ger- 
man Switzerland.  In  1555,  Haller  had  been  made  oeconomus  or 
prcEpositus  of  the  Gross  Munster  Foundation  at  Zurich. 

The  Knowledge  of  the  Heavens  and  the  Earth  Made  Easy, 
or  the  First  Principles  of  Astronomy  and  Geography. 
By  Isaac  Watts.     1725. 

"To  my  learned  friend,  Mr.  John  Eames,  Fellow  of  the 
Royal  Society : 

"Dear  Sir, 

"It  would  be  mere  trifling  to  say  anything  to  you  of  the 
Excellency  and  great  Advantage  of  these  Sciences,  whose 
first  Rudiments  I  have  here  drawn  up.  Your  Acquaint- 
ance with  these  Matters  hath  given  you  a  just  Relish  of  the 
Pleasure  of  them,  and  well  informed  you  of  their  solid  Use." 
But,  as  Watts  goes  on,  the  unlearned  need  to  be  apprised 
of  the  necessity  and  use  of  this  sort  of  learning — and  no  one 
is  more  qualified  to  give  this  information  than  his  friend. 
The  long  dedication  concludes:  "Farewell,  dear  Sir,  and 
forgive  the  Trouble  that  you  have  partly  devolv'd  on  your- 
self by  the  too  favourable  Opinion  you  have  conceived  both 

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286  Dedications 


of  these  Sheets  and  of  the  Writer  of  them,  who  takes  a 
pleasure  to  tell  the  World  that  he  is  with  great  Sincerity, 
Sir, 

"Your  most  obedient  Servant, 

"Isaac  Watts. 
"Theobalds  in  Hartfordshire,  June  ii,  1725," 

Tirocinium,  or  a  Review  of  Schools.     By  William  Cowper. 
1784. 

"To  the  Rev.  William  Cawthome  Unwin,  Rector  of 
Stock  in  Essex,  the  tutor  of  his  two  sons,  the  following  Poem, 
recommending  private  tuition  in  preference  to  an  education 
at  School,  is  inscribed,  by  his  affectionate  friend,  William 
Cowper." 

The  Works  of  Charles  Lamb.     1818.    Rosamund  Gray, 
Essays,  Letters,  etc. 

"to  martin   CHARLES    BURNEY,  ESQ." 

"Forgive  me,  Bumey,  if  to  thee  these  late 
And  hasty  products  of  a  critic  pen, 
Thyself  no  common  judge  of  books  and  men, 
In  feeling  of  thy  worth  I  dedicate. 
My  verse  was  offered  to  an  older  friend ; 
The  humbler  prose  has  fallen  to  thy  share: 
Nor  could  I  miss  the  occasion  to  declare. 
What  spoken  in  thy  presence  must  offend — 
That,  set  aside  some  few  caprices  wild. 
Those  htunorous  clouds  that  flit  o'er  brightest  days, 
In  all  my  threadings  of  this  worldly  maze, 
(And  I  have  watched  thee  almost  from  a  child) 
Free  from  self-seeking,  envy,  low  design, 
I  have  not  found  a  whiter  soul  than  thine." 

The  poetry  in  this  volume  of  Lamb's  collected  works  was  dedi- 
cated to  Coleridge — the  "older  friend."   Southey,  writing  to  Cole- 


To  Friends  287 


ridge  on  June  ii,  1804,  describes  Bumey:  "The  captain  hath  a 
son — begotten,  according  to  Lamb,  upon  a  mermaid;  and  thus 
far  is  certain,  that  he  is  the  queerest  fish  out  of  water.  A  para- 
lytic aflFection  in  childhood  has  kept  one  side  of  his  face  stationary, 
while  the  other  has  continued  to  grow,  and  the  two  sides  form  the 
most  ridiculous  whole  you  can  imagine;  the  boy,  however,  is  a 
sharp  lad,  the  inside  not  having  suflEered."  Barney  is  a  familiar 
figure  in  Lamb's  biography. 


^  The  Pilot.     By  James  Fenimore  Cooper.     1823. 

"To  William  Branford  Shubrick,  Esq.,  U.  S.  Navy. 

"My  dear  Shubrick: 

"Each  year  brings  some  new  and  melancholy  chasm  in 
what  is  now  the  brief  list  of  my  naval  friends  and  former 
associates.  War,  disease,  and  the  casualties  of  a  hazard- 
ous profession,  have  made  fearful  inroads  in  the  limited 
number;  while  the  places  of  the  dead  are  supplied  by  names 
that  to  me  are  those  of  strangers.  With  the  consequences 
of  these  sad  changes  before  me,  I  cherish  the  recollection 
of  those  with  whom  I  once  lived  in  close  famiHarity,  with 
pectiliar  interest,  and  feel  a  triumph  in  their  growing 
reputations,  that  is  but  little  short  of  their  own  honest 
pride. 

' '  But  neither  time  nor  separation  has  shaken  our  intimacy ; 
and  I  know  that  in  dedicating  to  you  this  volume,  I  tell 
you  nothing  new,  when  I  add,  that  it  is  a  tribute  paid  to 
an  enduring  friendship,  by 

"Your  old  Messmate, 

"The  Author." 


Vivian  Grey.    By  Lord  Beaconsfield.     1826. 

"To  the  Best  and  Greatest  of  Men,  I  dedicate  these 
volumes.  He  for  whom  it  is  intended,  will  accept  and 
appreciate  the  compliment.  Those  for  whom  it  is  not 
intended,  will  do  the  same." 


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Eugenie  Grandet.     By  Honore  de  Balzac.     1834. 

"To  Maria: 

"May  your  name,  that  of  one  whose  portrait  is  the 
noblest  ornament  of  this  work,  He  on  its  opening  page  like 
a  branch  of  sacred  box,  taken  from  an  unknown  tree,  but 
sanctified  by  religion,  and  kept  ever  fresh  and  green  by 
pious  hands  to  bless  the  house." 

Home  Influence.    By  Grace  Aguilar.     1847. 

"To  Mrs.  Herbert  Townshend  Bo  wen: 

"  My  dear  friend, — 

"Independent  of  the  personal  feelings  which  urged  the 
dedication  of  this  unpretending  volume  to  you,  I  know  few 
to  whom  a  story  illustrative  of  a  mother's  solemn  responsi- 
bilities, intense  anxiety  to  fulfil  them,  and  deep  sense  of 
the  Influence  of  Home  could,  with  more  justice,  be  tendered. 
Simple  as  is  the  actual  narrative,  the  sentiments  it  seeks 
to  illustrate  are  so  associated  with  you, — have  been  so 
strengthened  from  the  happy  hours  of  unrestrained  inter- 
course I  have  enjoyed  with  you, — that,  though  I  ought, 
perhaps,  to  have  waited  until  I  could  have  offered  a  work 
of  far  superior  merit  to  a  mind  like  yours,  I  felt  as  if  no 
story  of  mine  could  more  completely  belong  to  you.  Will 
you,  then,  pardon  the  unintentional  errors  which  I  fear 
you,  as  an  earnest  Protestant,  may  discern,  and  accept 
this  little  work  as  a  slight  tribute  of  the  warm  affection 
and  sincere  esteem  with  which  you  have  been  so  long 
regarded  by 

"Your  truly  attached  Friend, 

"Grace  Aguilar." 

Philosophy    of    the    Inductive    Sciences       By    William 
Whewell,  Master  of  Trinity  College,  Cambridge.     1847. 

"To  the  Rev.  Adam  Sedgwick: 

"When  I  showed  you  the  last  sheet  of  my  History  of  the 


To  Friends  289 


Inductive  Sciences  in  its  transit  through  the  press,  you 
told  me  that  I  ought  to  add  a  paragraph  or  two  at  the  end, 
by  way  of  Moral  to  the  story ;  and  I  replied  that  the  Moral 
would  be  as  long  as  the  story  itself.  The  present  work, 
the  Moral  which  you  then  desired,  I  have,  with  some  effort, 
reduced  within  a  somewhat  smaller  compass  than  I  then 
spoke  of;  and  I  cannot  dedicate  it  to  anyone  with  so  much 
pleasure  as  to  you.  It  has  always  been  my  wish  that,  as 
far  and  as  long  as  men  might  know  anything  of  me  by  my 
writing,  they  should  hear  of  me  along  with  the  friends  with 
whom  I  have  lived,  whom  I  have  loved,  and  by  whose  con- 
versation I  have  been  animated  to  hope  that  I  too  might 
add  something  to  the  literature  of  our  country."  The  dedi- 
cation concludes  with  a  reference  to  the  college  to  which 
they  both  belong — "and  in  which  we  have  lived  together 
so  long  and  so  happily." 

The  Seaside  and  the  Fireside.    By  Henry  Wadsworth 
Longfellow.     1850. 

DEDICATION 

"As  one  who,  walking  in  the  twilight  gloom, 
Hears  round  about  him  voices  as  it  darkens, 
And  seeing  not  the  forms  from  which  they  come. 
Pauses  from  time  to  time,  and  turns  and  hearkens; 

"So  walking  here  in  twilight,  O  my  friends! 
I  hear  your  voices,  softened  by  the  distance. 
And  pause,  and  turn  to  listen,  as  each  sends 

His  words  of  friendship,  comfort,  and  assistance. 

"  If  any  thought  of  mine,  or  sung  or  told. 
Has  ever  given  delight  or  consolation, 
Ye  have  repaid  me  back  a  thousand  fold, 
By  every  friendly  sign  and  salutation. 


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"Thanks  for  the  sympathies  that  ye  have  shown! 
Thanks  for  each  kindly  word,  each  silent  token, 
That  teaches  me,  when  seeming  most  alone, 

Friends  are  around  us,  though  no  word  be  spoken. 

"Kind  messages,  that  pass  from  land  to  land; 

Kind  letters,  that  betray  the  heart's  deep  history, 
In  which  we  feel  the  pressure  of  a  hand, — 

One  touch  of  fire, — and  all  the  rest  is  mystery! 

"The  pleasant  books,  that  silently  among 

Our  household  treasures  take  familiar  places. 
And  are  to  us  as  if  a  living  tongue 

Spake  from  the  printed  leaves  or  pictured  faces! 

"Perhaps  on  earth  I  never  shall  behold. 

With  eye  of  sense,  your  outward  form  and  semblance; 
Therefore  to  me  ye  never  will  grow  old. 

But  live  forever  young  in  my  remembrance. 

"Never  grow  old,  nor  change,  nor  pass  away! 
Your  gentle  voices  will  flow  on  forever. 
When  life  grows  bare  and  tarnished  with  decay. 
As  through  a  leafless  landscape  flows  a  river. 

"Not  chance  of  birth  or  place  has  made  us  friends. 
Being  oftentimes  of  different  tongues  and  nations, 
But  the  endeavour  for  the  selfsame  ends. 

With  the  same  hopes,  and  fears,  and  aspirations. 

"Therefore  I  hope  to  join  your  seaside  walk. 
Saddened,  and  mostly  silent,  with  emotion; 
Not  interrupting  with  intrusive  talk 

The  grand  majestic  symphonies  of  ocean. 


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"Therefore  I  hope,  as  no  unwelcome  guest, 

At  your  warm  fireside,  when  the  lamps  are  lighted, 
To  have  my  place  reserved  among  the  rest, 
Nor  stand  as  one  unsought  and  uninvited." 

Pendennis.     By  William  Makepeace  Thackeray.     1850.  "^ 

"To  Dr.  John  EUiotson. 

"My  dear  Doctor: 

"Thirteen  months  ago,  when  it  seemed  likely  that  this 
story  had  come  to  a  close,  a  kind  friend  brought  you  to  my 
bedside,  whence,  in  all  probability  I  never  should  have 
risen  but  for  your  constant  watchfulness  and  skill.  I  like 
to  recall  your  great  goodness  and  kindness  (as  well  as  acts 
of  others,  showing  quite  a  surprising  friendship  and  sym- 
pathy) at  that  time,  when  kindness  and  friendship  were 
most  needed  and  welcome. 

"And  as  you  would  take  no  other  fee  but  thanks,  let  me 
record  them  here  in  behalf  of  me  and  mine,  and  subscribe 
myself, 

"Yours  most  sincerely  and  gratefully, 

"W.  M.  Thackeray." 

Peg  Woffington.     By  Charles  Reade.     1852. 

"To  T.  Taylor,  Esq.,  my  friend  and  coadjutor  in  the 
comedy  of  Masks  and  Faces,  to  whom  the  reader  owes 
much  of  the  best  matter  in  this  Tale;  and  to  the  Memory 
of  Margaret  Woffington,  falsely  '  summed  up '  until  today, 
this  Dramatic  Story  is  inscribed  by  Charles  Reade." 

Bleak  House.     By  Charles  Dickens.     1853. 

"Dedicated  as  a  remembrance  of  our  friendly  union  to 
my  companions  in  the  Guild  of  Literature  and  Art." 

The  object  of  this  Guild  (organized  in  1851)  was  to  create  a  provident 
fund  whereby  impecunious  authors  and  artists  might  be  benefited. 
Bulwer-Lytton  was  associated  with  Dickens  in  the  inauguration  of  the 


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Guild,  and  the  Duke  of  Devonshire  offered  his  mansion  in  Piccadilly 
for  theatrical  representations  in  aid  of  the  design.  But  after  some 
years,  the  scheme  proved  a  complete  failure. 

For  Righteousness*  Sake.    By  John  Greenleaf  Whittier. 
1855. 

"  Inscribed  to  friends  under  arrest  for  treason  against  the 
slave  power." 

Prue  and  I.    By  George  William  Curtis.     1856. 

"To  Mrs.  Henry  W.  Longfellow,  in  memory  of  the  happy 
hours  at  our  castles  in  Spain." 

Missionary  Travels  and  Researches  in  South  Africa.    By 
David  Livingstone.     1858. 

"To  Sir  Roderick  Impey  Murchison,  President  of  the 
Royal  Geographical  Society,  this  work  is  affectionately 
offered  as  a  token  of  gratitude  for  the  kind  interest  he  has 
always  taken  in  the  Author's  pursuits  and  welfare;  and  to 
express  admiration  of  his  eminent  scientific  attainments, 
nowhere  more  strongly  evidenced  than  by  the  striking 
hypothesis  respecting  the  physical  conformation  of  the 
African  continent,  promulgated  in  his  Presidential  address 
to  the  Royal  Geographical  Society  in  1852,  and  verified 
three  years  afterward  by  the  Author  of  these  travels." 

Amy  Wentworth.     By  John  Greenleaf  Whittier.     1862. 

TO  WILLIAM  BRADFORD 

"As  they  who  watch  by  sick-beds  find  relief 
Unwittingly  from  the  great  stress  of  grief 
And  anxious  care,  in  fantasies  out  wrought 
From  the  hearth's  embers  flickering  low,  or  caught 
From  whispering  wind,  or  tread  of  passing  feet. 
Or  vagrant  memory  calling  up  some  sweet 
Snatch  of  old  song  or  romance,  whence  or  why 
They  scarcely  know  or  ask, — so,  thou  and  I, 


To  Friends  293 


Nursed  in  the  faith  that  Truth  alone  is  strong 

In  the  endurance  which  outwearies  Wrong, 

With  meek  persistence  bafiiing  brutal  force, 

And  trusting  God  against  the  tiniverse, — 

We,  doomed  to  watch  a  strife  we  may  not  share 

With  other  weapons  than  the  patriot's  prayer, 

Yet  owning,  with  full  hearts  and  moistened  eyes, 

The  awful  beauty  of  self-sacrifice, 

And  wrung  by  keenest  sympathy  for  all 

Who  give  their  loved  ones  for  the  living  wall 

'Twixt  law  and  treason, — in  this  evil  day 

May  haply  find,  through  automatic  play 

Of  pen  and  pencil,  solace  to  our  pain, 

And  hearten  others  with  the  strength  we  gain. 

I  know  it  has  been  said  our  times  reqmre 

No  play  of  art,  nor  dalliance  with  the  lyre, 

No  weak  essay  with  Fancy's  chloroform 

To  calm  the  hot,  mad  pulses  of  the  storm, 

But  the  stem  war-blast  rather,  such  as  sets 

The  battle's  teeth  of  serried  bayonets. 

And  pictures  grim  as  Vernet's.     Yet  with  these 

Some  softer  tints  may  blend,  and  milder  keys 

Relieve  the  storm-stunned  ear.     Let  us  keep  sweet. 

If  so  we  may,  our  hearts,  even  while  we  eat 

The  bitter  harvest  of  our  own  device 

And  half  a  century's  moral  cowardice. 

As  Nurnberg  sang  while  Wittenberg  defied. 

And  Kranach  painted  by  his  Luther's  side. 

And  through  the  war-march  of  the  Puritan 

The  silver  stream  of  Marvell's  music  ran. 

So  let  the  household  melodies  be  sung, 

The  pleasant  pictures  on  the  wall  be  hung, — 

So  let  us  hold  against  the  hosts  of  night 

And  slavery  all  our  vantage  ground  of  light. 

Let  Treason  boast  its  savagery,  and  shake 

From  its  flag-folds  its  symbol  rattlesnake, 


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Nurse  its  fine  arts,  lay  human  skins  in  tan, 
And  carve  its  pipe-bowls  from  the  bones  of  man. 
And  make  the  tale  of  Fijian  banquets  dull  . 
By  drinking  whiskey  from  a  loyal  skull, — 
But  let  us  guard,  till  this  sad  war  shall  cease, 
(God  grant  it  soon!)  the  graceful  arts  of  peace: 
No  foes  are  conquered  who  the  victors  teach 
Their  vandal  manners  and  barbaric  speech. 

"And  while,  with  hearts  of  thankfulness,  we  bear 
Of  the  great  common  burden  our  full  share, 
Let  none  upbraid  us  that  the  waves  entice 
Thy  sea-dipped  pencil,  or  some  quaint  device, 
Rhythmic  and  sweet,  beguiles  my  pen  away 
From  the  sharp  strifes  and  sorrows  of  to-day. 
Thus,  while  the  east- wind  keen  from  Labrador 
Sings  m  the  leafless  elms,  and  from  the  shore 
Of  the  great  sea  comes  the  monotonous  roar 
Of  the  long-breaking  surf,  and  all  the  sky 
Is  gray  with  cloud,  home-bound  and  dull,  I  try 
To  time  a  simple  legend  to  the  sounds 
Of  winds  in  the  woods,  and  waves  on  pebbled  bounds, — 
A  song  for  oars  to  chime  with,  such  as  might 
Be  sung  by  t^.red  sea-painters,  who  at  night 
Look  from  their  hemlock  camps,  by  quiet  cove 
Or  beach,  moon-lighted,  on  the  waves  they  love. 
(So  hast  thou  looked,  when  level  sunset  lay 
On  the  calm  bosom  of  some  Eastern  bay, 
And  all  the  spray-moist  rocks  and  waves  that  rolled 
Up  the  white  sand-slopes  flashed  with  ruddy  gold.) 
Something  it  has — a  flavor  of  the  sea, 
And  the  sea's  freedom — which  reminds  of  thee. 
Its  faded  picture,  dimly  smiling  down 
From  the  blurred  fresco  of  the  ancient  town, 
I  have  not  touched  with  warmer  tints  in  vain. 
If,  in  this  dark,  sad  year,  it  steals  one  thought  from  pain." 


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Sordello.     By  Robert  Browning.     1863. 

"To  J.  Milsand,  of  Dijon. 

"Dear  Friend, — Let  the  next  poem  be  introduced  by 
your  name,  therefore  remembered  along  with  one  of  the 
deepest  of  my  affections,  and  so  repay  all  trouble  it  ever 
cost  me.  I  wrote  it  twenty-five  years  ago  for  only  a  few, 
counting  even  in  these  on  somewhat  more  care  about  its 
subject  than  they  really  had.  My  own  faults  of  expression 
were  many ;  but  with  care  for  a  man  or  book  such  would  be 
surmounted,  and  without  it  what  avails  the  faultlessness 
of  either?  I  blame  nobody,  least  of  all  myself,  who  did 
my  best  then  and  since;  for  I  lately  gave  time  and  pains 
to  turn  my  work  into  what  the  many  might — instead  of 
what  the  few  must — 1  ke;  but  after  all,  I  imagined  another 
thing  at  first,  and  therefore  leave  as  I  find  it.  The  histori- 
cal decoration  was  purposely  of  no  more  importance  than 
a  background  requires  and  my  stress  lay  on  the  incidents 
in  the  development  of  a  soul:  little  else  is  worth  study.  I, 
at  least,  always  thought  so, — you,  with  many  known  and 
unknown  to  me,  think  so, — others  may  one  day  think  so; 
and  whether  my  attempt  remain  for  them  or  not,  I  trust, 
though  away  and  past  it,  to  continue  ever  yours. 

"R.  B. 

"London:  June  9,  1863." 

It  was  for  the  reprint  of  Sordello  in  1863  that  Browning  wrote 
the  above  dedication.  A  pleasant  article  on  Browning  by  M. 
Joseph  Milsand,  in  the  Revue  des  Deux  Mondes,  1851,  led  to  the 
formation  of  a  lasting  friendship.  This  article,  wrote  Mrs.  Brown- 
ing to  Miss  Mitford  (November  12,  1851),  was  "so  highly  appre- 
ciatory  as  well  nigh  to  satisfy  we." 

Life  of  William  Hickling  Prescott.     By  George  Ticknor. 
1864. 

'  To  William  Howard  Gardiner  and  William  Amory.  We 
are  more  than  once  mentioned  together  in  the  last  testa- 
mentary dispositions  of  our  friend,  as  persons  for  whom  he 


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felt  a  true  regard,  and  to  whose  affection  and  fidelity  he, 
in  some  respects,  intrusted  the  welfare  of  those  who  were 
dearest  to  him  in  life.  Permit  me,  then,  to  associate  your 
names  with  mine  in  this  tribute  to  his  memory. 

"George  Ticknor." 

Life  of  Mendelssohn.     By  W.  A.  Lampadius.     Translated 
by  W.  A.  Gage.     1865. 

"To  John  S.  D wight,  whose  enthusiastic  admiration 
first  made  the  letters  of  Mendelssohn  accessible  to  American 
readers,  and  whose  tastes  are  so  fully  in  harmony  with  the 
purity  of  Mendelssohn's  genius  and  life,  this  translation 
is  dedicated,  as  a  slight  expression  of  thanks  for  judicious 
counsel  and  timely  encouragement." 

Hereward  the  Wake.     By  Charles  Kingsley.     1866. 

"To  Thomas  Wright,  Esq.,  F.S.A.,  etc. 

"My  dear  Wright: 

"Thus  does  Hereward,  the  hero  of  your  youth,  reappear 
at  last  in  a  guise  fitted  for  a  modern  drawing-room.  To 
you  is  due  whatever  new  renown  he  may  win  for  himself 
in  that  new  field.  You  first  disinterred  him,  long  ago, 
when  scarcely  a  hand  or  foot  of  him  was  left  standing  out 
from  beneath  the  dust  of  ages.  You  taught  me,  since  then, 
how  to  furbish  his  rusty  harness,  botch  his  bursten  saddle, 
and  send  him  forth  once  more,  upon  the  ghost  of  his  gallant 
mare.  Truly  he  shoiild  feel  obliged  to  you;  and  though 
we  cannot  believe  that  the  last  infirmity  of  noble  minds 
endures  beyond  the  grave,  or  that  any  touch  of  his  old 
vanity  still  stains  the  spirit  of  the  mighty  Wake ;  yet  we  will 
please  ourselves — why  should  we  not? — with  the  fancy  that 
he  is  as  grateful  to  you  as  I  am  this  day. 

"Yours  faithfully, 

"C.  Kingsley." 


To  Friends  297 


The  Guardian  Angel.     By  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.     1867. 

"To  James  T.  Fields,  a  token  of  kind  regard  from  one 
of  many  writers  who  have  found  him  a  wise,  faithful,  and 
generous  friend." 

The  Man  with  the  Broken  Ear.    Translated  from  the 
French  of  Edmond  About  by  Henry  Holt.     1867. 

"Dear  Leypoldt: 

"You  have  not  forgotten  that  nearly  two  years  ago, 
before  our  business  connection  was  thought  of,  this  iden- 
tical translation  was  'respectfully  declined'  by  you  with 
that  same  courtesy,  the  exercise  of  which  in  frequent  similar 
cases  each  one  of  us  now  tries  so  hard  to  shove  on  the  other's 
shoulders.  I  hope  that  your  surprise  on  reading  this  note 
of  dedication  will  not  interfere  with  your  forgiving  the 
pertinacity  with  which,  through  it,  I  still  strive  to  make  the 
book  yours. 

"H.  H. 

"451  Broome  Street, 
"May  16,  1867." 

Under  the  Willows.     By  James  Russell  Lowell.     1868. 

"to   CHARLES    ELIOT  NORTON" 

"The  wind  is  roistering  out-of-doors, 
My  windows  shake  and  my  chimney  roars; 
My  Elmwood  chimneys  seem  crooning  to  me, 
As  of  old,  in  their  moody,  minor  key. 
And  out  of  the  past  the  hoarse  wind  blows, 
As  I  sit  in  my  arm-chair  and  toast  my  toes. 

"I  sit  and  I  dream  that  I  hear,  as  of  yore. 
My  Elmwood  chimneys'  deep-throated  roar. 


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/ 


If  much  be  gone,  there  is  much  remains ; 

By  the  embers  of  loss  I  count  my  gains, 

You  and  yours  with  the  best,  till  the  old  hope  glows 

In  the  fanciful  flame  as  I  toast  my  toes,"  etc. 

Chips  from  a  German  Workshop.     By  Max  Miiller.     1869. 

"To  the  memory  of  Baron  Bunsen,  my  friend  and 
benefactor. 

" '  And  the  further  thou  art  from  me,  the  more  I  long 
and  yearn  for  thee.'     {Terence,  Heautontimorumenos) .'' 

Roughing  It.     By  Mark  Twain.     1871. 

"To  Calvin  H.  Higbie  of  California,  an  honest  man,  a 
genial  comrade,  and  a  steadfast  friend,  this  book  is  inscribed 
by  the  author  in  memory  of  the  curious  time  when  we  two 
were  millionaires  for  ten  days." 

The  story  of  the  brief  period  when  a  supposed  lucky  "strike" 
made  them  milHonaires  in  prospect  is  told  in  Volume  I,  chapter  xl, 
of  Roughing  It,  with  their  plans  for  extensive  European  travel, 
and  Mark  Twain's  uneasy  recollection  of  an  unpaid  six-dollar 
butcher's  bill. 

A  Memorial  of  Alice  and  Phoebe  Gary.     By  Mary  Clemmer 
Ames.     1873. 

"To  Alice  Cary  Clymer  (Little  AHce)  who,  to  their  last 
earthly  hour,  gave  to  her  aunts  a  daughter's  tenderest  love 
and  devotion,  this  memorial  of  their  lives  is  affectionately 
dedicated  by  her  friend  and  theirs. 

"Mary  Clemmer  Ames." 

Callista.     By  Cardinal  Newman.     1873. 

"To  Henry  William  Wilberforce.  To  you  alone,  who 
have  known  me  so  long,  and  who  love  me  so  well,  could  I 
venture  to  offer  a  trifle  like  this.  But  you  will  recognize 
the  author  in  his  work,  and  take  pleasure  in  the  recognition." 


To  Friends  299 


German  Universities :  A  Narrative  of  Personal  Experience. 
By  James  Morgan  Hart.     1874. 

"To  George  Haven  Putnam,  whose  steadfast  wish  has 
been  father  to  the  author's  thought,  this  book  is  inscribed, 
in  friendly  remembrance  of  the  Georgia  Augusta,  1861-2." 

Baddeck,     By  Charles  Dudley  Warner.     1874. 

"To  my  comrade,  Joseph  H.  Twichell,  Summer  and 
Winter  Friend,  whose  companionship  would  make  any 
journey  a  delightful  memory,  these  notes  of  a  sunny  fort- 
night in  the  Provinces  are  inscribed." 

Poems,     By  Elizabeth  H.  Whittier.     1874. 

Originally  published  in  the  volume  entitled  Hazel  Blos- 
soms, and  accompanied  by  the  following  prefatory  note 
and  dedication: 

"I  have  ventured,  in  compliance  with  the  desire  of  dear 
friends  of  my  beloved  sister,  Elizabeth  H.  Whittier,  to 
add  to  this  little  volume  the  few  poetical  pieces  which  she 
left  behind  her.  As  she  was  very  distrustful  of  her  own 
powers,  and  altogether  without  ambition  for  literary  dis- 
tinction, she  shunned  everything  like  publicity,  and  found 
far  greater  happiness  in  generous  appreciation  of  the  gift 
of  her  friends  than  in  the  cultivation  of  her  own.  Yet  it 
has  always  seemed  to  me,  that  had  her  health,  sense  of  duty 
and  fitness,  and  her  extreme  self-distrust  permitted,  she 
might  have  taken  a  high  place  among  lyrical  singers. 
These  poems,  with  perhaps  two  or  three  exceptions,  afford 
but  slight  indications  of  the  inward  life  of  the  writer,  who 
had  an  almost  morbid  dread  of  spiritual  and  intellectual 
egotism,  or  of  her  tenderness  of  sympathy,  chastened  mirth- 
fulness,  and  pleasant  play  of  thought  and  fancy,  when  her 
shy,  beautiful  soul  opened  like  a  flower  in  the  warmth  of 
social  communion.     In  the  lines  on  Dr.  Kane  her  friends 


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will  see  something  of  her  fine  individuality, — the  rare 
mingling  of  delicacy  and  intensity  of  feeling  which  made  her 
dear  to  them  This  little  poem  reached  Cuba  while  the 
great  explorer  lay  on  his  death-bed,  and  we  are  told  that  he 
listened  with  grateful  tears  while  it  was  read  to  him  by  his 
mother.  I  am  tempted  to  say  more,  but  I  write  as  under 
the  eye  of  her  who,  while  with  us,  shrank  with  painful 
deprecation  from  the  praise  or  mention  of  performances 
which  seemed  so  far  below  her  ideal  of  excellence.  To 
those  who  best  knew  her,  the  beloved  circle  of  her  intimate 
friends,  I  dedicate  this  slight  memorial. 

"J.  G.  W. 
"Amesbury,  9th  mo.,  1874." 

Home  Pastorals.     By  Bayard  Taylor.     1875. 

"Ad  amicos: 

"From  that  wide  air,  whose  greedy  silence  swallows 

So  many  voices,  even  as  mine  seemed  lost, 
I  hear  you  speak,  and  sudden  glory  follows. 

As  from  a  falling  tongue  of  Pentecost. 

"So  heard  and  hailed  by  you,  that,  standing  nearest, 
Blend  love  with  faith  in  one  far-shining  flame, 
I  hold  anew  the  earliest  gift  and  dearest — 
The  happy  Song  that  cares  not  for  its  fame." 

Practical  Cooking.     By  Mrs.  Mary  F.  Henderson.     1876. 

"To  my  friend,  Mrs.  Ellen  Ewing  Sherman,  a  lady  who 
studies  the  comforts  of  her  household,  these  receipts  are 
affectionately  dedicated." 

Fossil  Men  and  their  Modern  Representatives.     By  John 
W.  Dawson.     1880. 

"To  his  friend,  Peter  Redpath,  Esq.,  of  Montreal,  this 
work  is  dedicated  by  the  author,  in  commemoration  of 
practical  kindness,  and  of  aid  liberally  rendered  to  science 
education  in  Canada." 


i 


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The    Sisters.    By    Georg   Ebers.     Translated   from   the 
German  by  Clara  Bell.     1880. 

"To  HeiT  Edward  von  Haliberger: 

"Allow  me,  my  dear  friend,  to  dedicate  these  pages  to 
you.  I  present  them  to  you  at  the  close  of  a  period  of 
twenty  years  during  which  a  warm  and  fast  friendship  has 
subsisted  between  us,  unbroken  by  any  disagreement. 
Four  of  my  works  have  first  seen  the  light  under  your  care 
and  have  wandered  all  over  the  world  under  the  protection 
of  your  name.  This,  my  fifth  book,  I  desire  to  make  espe- 
cially your  own;  it  was  partly  written  in  your  beautiful  home 
at  Tutzing,  under  your  hospitable  roof,  and  I  desire  to  prove 
to  you  by  some  visible  token,  that  I  know  how  to  value  your 
affection  and  friendship  and  the  many  happy  hours  we 
have  passed  together,  refreshing  and  encouraging  each  other 
by  a  full  and  perfect  interchange  of  thought  and  sentiment. 
"Faithfully  your  friend, 

"Georg  Ebers." 

A  Book  of  Strife  in  the  Form  of  the  Diary  of  an  Old  Soul. 
By  George  Macdonald.     1880. 

"Sweet  friend,  receive  my  offering.     You  will  find 
Against  each  worded  page  a  white  page  set: — 
This  is  the  mirror  of  each  friendly  mind. 
Reflecting  that,  in  this  book  we  are  met. 

"Make  it,  dear  hearts,  of  worth  to  you  indeed: — 
Let  your  white  page  be  ground,  my  print  be  seed, 
Growing  to  golden  ears,  that  faith  and  hope  shall  feed. 

"Your  old  soul." 

John  Inglesant.     By  J.  Henry  Shorthouse.     1880. 

"To  Rawdon  Levett,  Esq. 

"  My  dear  Levett,  I  dedicate  the  volume  to  you,  that  I 
may  have  an  opportunity  of  calling  myself  your  friend. 

"J.  Henry  Shorthouse. 
"Lansdowne,  Edgbaston, 
"June  17,  1880." 


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Pastoral  Days.     By  W.  Hamilton  Gibson.     1881. 

"To  one  whose  close  companionship  has  wrought  that 
harmony  and  peace  of  mind  from  which  this  book  has 
sprung,  and  to  whom  its  every  page  recalls  a  reminiscence 
of  the  past  identified  with  memories  of  my  own,  this  memoir 
is  lovingly  inscribed  'Our  Souvenir. '  " 

Colonel  Gordon  in  South  Africa.     From  Original  Letters 
and  Documents  Edited  by  George  Birkbeck  Hill.     1881. 

"To  Miss  Gordon,  this  record  of  her  brother's  beneficent 
rule  over  the  wild  tribes  of  Central  Africa  is  dedicated  with 
every  feeHng  of  respect  by  her  faithful  servant,  the  editor." 

The  Jefifersons.     By  William  Winter.     1881. 

"This  memorial  of  the  JefiEersons  is  dedicated  by  its 
author  to  their  famous  kinsman,  William  Warren,  actor, 
scholar,  and  comrade,  whose  quaint  and  tender  genius  in 
dramatic  art  has  given  happiness  to  thousands,  and  whose 
exalted  virtues  and  gentle  life  have  made  him  an  example 
and  an  honor  to  the  stage  and  the  community." 

Helen  of  Troy.     By  Andrew  Lang.     1882. 

"To  all  old  Friends;  to  all  who  dwell 
Where  Avon  dhu  and  Avon  ghel 
Down  to  the  western  waters  flow 
Through  valleys  dear  from  long  ago; 
To  all  who  hear  the  whisper' d  spell 
Of  Ken;  and  Tweed  like  music  swell 
Hard  by  the  Land  Debatable, 

Or  gleaming  Shannon  seaward  go, — 
To  all  old  Friends! 

"To  all  that  yet  remember  well 
What  secrets  I  sis  had  to  tell, 


To  Friends  303 


How  lazy  Cherwell  loitered  slow 
Sweet  aisles  of  blossom'd  May  below — 
Whate'er  befall,  whate'er  befell, 
To  a// old  Friends!" 

Tristram  of  Lyonesse.     By  Algernon  Charles  Swinburne. 
1882. 

"To  my  best  friend,  Theodore  Watts,  I  dedicate  in  this 
book  the  best  I  have  to  give  him. 
"Spring  speaks  again,  and  all  our  woods  are  stirred, 
And  all  our  wide  glad  wastes  afiower  around. 
That  twice  have  heard  keen  April's  clarion  sound, 
Since  here  we  first  together  saw  and  heard 
Spring's  light  reverberate  and  reiterate  word 

Shine  forth  and  speak  in  season.     Life  stands  crowned 
Here  with  the  best  one  thing  it  ever  found, 
As  of  my  soul's  best  birthdays  dawns  the  third. 

"There  is  a  friend  that,  as  the  wise  man  saith, 
Cleaves  closer  than  a  brother;  nor  to  me 
Hath  time  not  shown,  through  days  like  waves  at  strife, 
This  truth  more  sure  than  all  things  else  but  death, 
This  pearl  most  perfect  found  in  all  the  sea 

That  washes  towards  your  feet  these  waifs  of  life. 
"The  Pines,  April,  1882." 

Terra  Vergine.     By  Gabriele  d'Annunzio.     1883. 

"To  Giovanni  Chiarini,  native  of  the  Abruzzi,  who  lies 
far  from  here  beneath  a  bamboo  hut  in  the  heart  of  Africa." 

A  Voyage  in  the  Sunbeam.     By  Lady  Brassey.     1884. 

DEDICATION 

"To  the  friends  in  many  climes  and  countries,  of  the 
white  and  coloured  races,  and  of  every  grade  in  society, 
who  have  made  our  year  of  travel  a  year  of  happiness, 
these  pages  are  dedicated  by  the  ever-grateful  author." 


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Surrey  Belles  and  London  Bell  Founders.     By  J.  C.  Stahl- 

schmidt     1884. 

"This  book  (undertaken  at  his  instance)  is  dedicated 
in  affectionate  remembrance  of  Thomas  North,  F.S.A., 
one  who,  like  Enoch,  'walked  with  God,  and  was  not,  for 
God  took  him. '  " 

The  Old  Merchants  of  New  York  City.     By  Walter  Barrett. 
Vol.  II.     1885. 

"  To  Archibald  Gracie,  Esq. 

"You  were  really  the  first  merchant  that  the  author  ever 
met,  and  it  was  to  you  that  he  was  indebted  for  his  first 
knowledge  of  the  rudiments  of  commerce,  and  his  early 
acquaintance  with  the  names  and  persons  of  the  leading 
merchants  of  the  period,  among  whom  none  ranked  higher 
than  yourself. 

"The  author  also  came  upon  the  stage  sufficiently  early 
to  know  that  Archibald  Gracie,  Senior,  your  venerable 
father,  who,  about  the  period  of  the  passing  of  the  last  into 
the  present  century,  was  among  the  first  merchants  of  this 
or  any  other  cotmtry,  his  ships  visiting  every  port  of  the 
world.  When,  in  writing  in  these  chapters  of  'Old  Mer- 
chants,' about  the  loftiest  commercial  integrity,  spotless 
private  character,  the  innocence  of  a  child,  of  grand  com- 
mercial views  botmded  only  by  the  latitude  and  longi- 
tude of  the  globe,  the  dignified  presence,  the  philosopher 
in  overwhelming  misfortune,  patience  in  waiting  through 
long  weary  years  for  the  wrong  to  be  made  right,  the  vener- 
able white  hairs  and  the  soul  of  goodness, — to  write  cor- 
rectly of  all,  the  author  had  only  to  recall  to  memory  that 
same  father  of  yours,  whose  remains  he  saw  placed  in  the 
family  vault  more  than  a  third  of  a  century  ago  in  St. 
Thomas's  churchyard. 

"What,  then,  more  proper,  than  that  the  author  should 
respectfully  dedicate  this  voltime  to  yourself,  bearing  a 
name  doublv  honored  in  mercantile  annals.'*" 


To  Friends  305 


William  Lloyd  Garrison.     The  Story  of  his  Life  Told  by  his 
Children.     1885. 

"To  Samuel  May,  of  Leicester,  Massachusetts,  who  freed 
from  toil  and  care  the  declining  years  of  William  Lloyd 
Garrison,  this  work  is  gratefully  and  affectionately  inscribed. 
Nobis  hasc  otia  fecit." 


Mensonges.     By  Paul  Bourget.     1887. 

'  To  Louis  Ganderax. 

"The  greater  part  of  this  book  has  been  composed,  my 
dear  Louis,  in  England,  while  seated  in  the  angle  of  a 
bow  window.  It  reminded  me  of  our  summer  together  in 
Shanklin  in  1880,  when  from  just  such  a  window  in  our 
common  salon,  we  overlooked  a  broad  expanse  of  green 
lawn. 

■'Now  in  my  soHtude  across  the  channel,  I  have  been 
working  at  a  book  of  doubt  and  sad  analysis,  and  often  as 
I  have  thought  of  those  happy  days  with  you,  the  current 
of  my  somber  thoughts  has  been  diverted  into  more  cheer- 
ful channels.  I  seem  to  see  again  the  quiet  maid — devout, 
pale-faced  as  a  Burne- Jones  saint,  moving  hither  and  thither 
quietly  as  a  spirit. 

"And  again  I  see  our  charming  hosts  welcoming  us  in 
the  poetic  Rylstone.  I  see  the  ravine  through  whose  thick 
shade  we  caught  glimpses  of  the  blue  sea  beyond  and  the 
tall  ferns  raising  their  graceful  heads,  so  Hving  and  so 
delicate.  But  above  all,  my  dear  Louis,  there  come  to 
my  mind  thoughts  of  you  and  your  faithful  friendship, 
which  has  brought  me  so  much  comfort  since  those  far 
away  days. 

"Accept  then,  th  s  romance  which  I  dedicate  to  you  as 
a  testimonial,  though  inadequate,  of  affection  which  I 
offer  you  in  return,  an  affection  which  at  least  is  not  a  lie. 

"Paris,  Oct.  23,  1887." 


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Life,  Letters  and  Journals  of  Louisa  M.  Alcott.     Edited  by 
Ednah  D.  Cheney.     1889. 

"To  Mrs.  Anna  B.  Pratt: 

"The  sole  surviving  sister  of  Louisa  M.  Alcott,  and  her 
never  failing  help,  comforter,  and  friend  from  birth  to 
death,  this  memoir  is  respectfully  and  tenderly  dedicated 
by  Ednah  D.  Cheney. 

"Jamaica  Plain,  June,  1889." 

'  The  Story  of  Patsy.     By  Kate  Douglas  Wiggin.     1889. 

"To  H.  C.  A.,  in  remembrance  of  gladness  given  to  sor- 
rowful little  lives." 

Asolando.     By  Robert  Browning.     1890. 

"To  Mrs.  Arthur  Bronson. 

"To  whom  but  you,  dear  friend,  should  I  dedicate  verses 
— some  few  written,  all  of  them  supervised,  in  the  comfort 
of  your  presence,  and  with  yet  another  experience  of  the 
gracious  hospitality  now  bestowed  on  me  since  so  many  a 
year, — adding  a  charm  even  to  my  residences  at  Venice, 
and  leaving  me  little  regret  for  the  surprise  and  delight  at 
my  visits  to  Asolo  in  bygone  days. 

"I  unite,  you  will  see,  the  disconnected  poems  by  a  title- 
name  popularly  ascribed  to  the  inventiveness  of  the  ancient 
Secretary  of  Queen  Comaro  whose  palace-tower  still  over- 
looks us!  Asolare — 'to  disport  in  the  open  air,  amuse  oneself 
at  random.'  The  objection  that  such  a  word  nowhere 
occurs  in  the  works  of  the  Cardinal  is  hardly  important 
— Bembo  was  too  thoroughly  a  purist  to  conserve  in  print 
a  term  which  in  talk  he  might  possibly  toy  with:  but  the 
word  is  more  likely  derived  from  a  Spanish  source.  I  use 
it  for  love  of  the  place,  and  in  requital  of  your  pleasant 
assurance  that  an  early  poem  of  mine  first  attracted  you 


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thither  [Pippa  Passes] — where  and  elsewhere,  at  La  Mura 
as  Ca  Alvisi,  may  all  happiness  attend  you. 

"Gratefully  and  affectionately  yours, 

"R.  B. 
"Asolo,  Oct.  15,  1 1 


Our  Recent  Actors.     By  Westland  Marston.     1890. 

"To  Joseph  Knight,  Esq.,  of  Lincoln's-Inn,  Barrister-at- 
law. 

"My  dear  friend: 

"It  may  probably  have  occurred  to  you,  as  it  has  done 
to  myself,  to  glance  in  leisure  moments  at  the  dedications 
which  were  published  a  century  or  two  ago.  I  confess  to 
having  read  them  with  considerable  amusement,  and, 
perhaps,  with  a  slight  feeling  of  contempt;  for  the  poet's 
praise  of  his  patron  was  usually  in  such  superlatives  that 
he  often  evinced  more  imagination  in  his  dedication  than 
in  his  poem.  Were  the  patron  a  warrior,  he  was  at  least 
an  Achilles;  were  he  a  poet,  one  would  think  that  Homer 
and  Shakespeare  ought  to  hold  up  h  s  train ;  were  he  a 
legislator,  Solon  or  Lycurgus  would  be  ecUpsed;  while  in 
the  event  of  the  book  being  inscribed  to  a  lady,  the  three 
Goddesses  who  contended  for  the  Golden  Apple  were  at 
once  superseded  in  their  respective  attributes  by  the  modern 
divinity.  One  naturally  reproaches  such  clients,  to  use 
the  old  phrase,  with  insincerity  and  servility. 

"And  yet  I  have  at  length  learned,  from  experience, 
some  toleration  for  them,  for  you  have  taught  me  that 
seeming  hyperbole  may  well  consist  with  truth.  Of  the 
man  whose  imaginative  sympathy  and  refinement  have  not 
only  endeared  him  to  some  of  our  best  poets,  but  made  him 
a  poet  h  mself ;  of  the  critic  whose  rare  discernment  has 
been  in  nothing  more  conspicuous  than  in  his  quick  detec- 
tion of  merit;  of  the  friend  who  has  rejoiced  in  the  successes 
of  others  as  if  they  had  been  h's  own,  while  their  misfor- 
tunes have  called  forth  his   unt'ring    devotion — 'Victrix 


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causa  diis  placuit  sed  victa  Catoni' — of  such  a  man,  I 
draw  a  portrait  which,  though  absolutely  faithful,  may  be 
regarded  by  those  who  do  not  know  him  as  purely  ideal. 
Accept  from  me  these  Recollections  touching  an  art  in 
which  we  are  both  deeply  interested,  and  believe,  dear 
Knight,  in  the  profound  and  grateful  affection  of  yours 
always, 

"Westland  Marston." 

Essays  Speculative  and  Suggestive.    By  John  Addington 
Symonds.     1890. 

"To  Miss  Margot  Tenant,  in  memory  of  long  dark  winter 
nights  at  Davos,  made  luminous  by  witty  conversation." 

Sermons  Preached  in  English  Churches.     By  the  Reverend 
Phillips  Brooks.     1891. 

"To  many  friends  in  England,  in  remembrance  of  their 
cordial  welcome,  I  inscribe  these  sermons." 

An  Old  Maid's  Love.     By  Maarten  Maartens.     1891. 

"To  Reginald  Stanley  Faber,  the  author  offers  the  dedi- 
cation of  this  book,  as  a  recognition  of  kindness  in  the  past 
and  a  plea  for  future  friendship." 

Pelleas  et  Melisande.     By  Maurice  Maeterlinck.     1892. 

"To  Octave  Mirbeau,  as  a  testimony  of  deep  friendship, 
admiration,  and  gratitude." 

A  Day  at  Laguerre's  and  Other  Days.     By  F.  Hopkinson 
Smith.     1892. 

"To  my  out-door  friends  everywhere:  My  good  Espero, 
whom  I  love:  Manual  and  his  sweetheart:  little  Lucette 
with  the  velvet  eyes,  big-hearted  captain  Joe,  and  even 
Isaacs — Isaacs,  the  unfaithful,  who  is  watching  to  fleece 
me  again  when  next  I  visit  Constantinople." 


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Four  Lectures  on  Henrik  Ibsen.     By  Philip  H.  Wicksteed. 
1892. 
"To  Froken  Valborg  Platou  these  studies  are  dedicated 

in  grateful  recognition  of  her  unwearied  zeal  in  helping 
English  visitors  to  enjoy  and  to  appreciate  Norway  and 
her  poets." 

Ivar  the  Viking.     By  Paul  du  Chaillu.     1893. 

"To  George  W.  Childs. 

"My  dearChilds: 

"Years  of  our  unbroken  friendship,  going  back  more 
than  a  quarter  of  a  century,  have  passed  away,  and  the  rec- 
ollection of  all  your  kindness  during  that  time  comes  vividly 
before  my  mind.  Many  a  time  yoiu*  home  in  Philadelphia, 
at  the  sea-side,  or  at  Wootton  has  been  my  home,  and  many 
of  the  happy  days  of  my  life  have  been  spent  with  you  and 
your  kind  wife.  Three  years  ago,  I  lay  on  a  sick-bed  at 
your  house,  and  all  that  tender  nursing,  the  skill  of  the 
physician,  and  loving  hands  could  do  that  winter  was  done 
for  me,  and  for  all  that  I  am  indebted  to  you  and  to  Mrs. 
Childs.  Now  a  twenty  miles'  walk  day  after  day  does 
not  fatigue  me.  Ivar  the  Viking  was  partly  written  after 
my  recovery,  under  the  shade  trees  of  Wootton  and  in  the 
midst  of  the  perfume  of  its  flowers.  To  you,  my  dear  old 
friend,  I  dedicate  the  book  as  a  token  of  the  esteem  and 
high  regard  I  have  for  yotu*  noble  character,  and  in  grateful 
remembrance  of  all  you  have  done  for  me. 

"  Paul  Du  Chaillu. 

"New  York,  September,  1893." 

Wagner  and  His  Works.     By  Henry  T.  Finck.     1893. 

'To  Anton  Seidl,  of  whom  Wagner  wrote  in  his  last 
letter, '  Seidl  delights  me  greatly '  and  who  first  made  Ameri- 
cans acquainted  w'th  the  greatest  of  Wagner's  music- 
dramas,  '  Tristan  and  Isolde, '  '  Die  Meistersinger, '  and  the 


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Nibelung  Tetralogy,  this  book  is  dedicated  by  the  author 
as  a  slight  return  for  the  pleasure  so  often  received  from  his 
poetic  and  inspired  interpretations." 

The  Garden  That  I  Love.     By  Alfred  Austin.     1894. 

"To  Madeleine  and  Dorothy  Stanley. 

"Dear  Madeleine  and  Dorothy, 

"  Do  you  remember  how,  when  first  you  saw  the  Garden 
that  I  Love,  inexorable  clouds,  as  though  of  opinion  your 
presence  was  sunshine  enough,  came  drifting  from  the  south, 
and  fitful  showers  drenched  border  and  flower-bed?  But 
young  enthusiasm,  and  in  part  perhaps  inherited  amiability, 
allowed  you  to  see  nothing  save  unqualified  beauty,  and 
even  on  that  morose  forenoon  you  bestowed  on  them  pane- 
gyrics they  hardly  deserve  even  in  their  most  unclouded 
moments. 

"After  you  were  both  gone,  I  said  to  myself,  'Some  day 
they  will  have  a  garden  of  their  own,  and  they  too  will  love 
it.'  But  what  is  Love?  Love,  says  Veronica's  Poet 
somewhere, 

'Is  observation,  patience,  vigilance. 

And  heartfelt  understanding.     Love  is  wisdom 
In  tender  operation. ' 

"But  it  is  neither  wise,  nor  tender,  nor  loving,  to  remit 
to  others,  however  expert,  the  supreme  care  of  one's  garden. 
You  will  tend  yours  with  your  own  hands,  and  discover  its 
needs  with  your  own  heart ;  and  if,  in  doing  so,  you  have  to 
withdraw  yourselves  sometimes,  more  than  accords  with 
modem  wont,  into  rural  seclusion,  your  social  instincts 
will  not  thereby  be  starved,  nor  your  share  in  the  graces  and 
charities  of  life  thereby  be  curtailed.  You  will  find  much 
resemblance  between  flowers  and  human  beings;  for  they 
too  grow  reserved  under  coldness  or  maltreatment,  and 
respond  with  almost  feminine  alacrity  to  every  sympathetic 
endeavor  to  apprehend  them.     But,  most  of  all,  the  cultiva- 


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tion  of  a  garden  tends  to  foster  that  sense  of  kinship  with 
the  lowly  in  which  you  have  been  trained;  since  there  are 
none  who  love  their  garden  so  tenderly  as  the  poor.  Is  it 
not  a  consoling  thought  that  what,  after  human  affection, 
is,  I  think,  the  deepest  and  most  abiding  of  all  pleasures,  is 
well  within  the  reach  of  the  humblest  cottager?  Only 
yesterday  I  saw,  in  a  little  village  garden,  a  cluster  of  Crown 
Imperials  that  put  to  shame  the  best  I  can  boast;  and  I 
know  full  well  their  higher  beauty  was  but  the  stalk  and 
blossom  of  deeper  devotion. 

"You  therefore,  I  know,  will  tend  your  own  flowers, 
even  as  already,  in  some  degree,  you  tend  them  at  your 
dear  Arlington ;  bestowing  them  on  your  friends,  with  them 
decorating  the  Sanctuary,  and  ofttimes  carrying  them — 
'lilies,  lilies  bearing' — to  the  window  sills  of  the  suffering 
and  the  pallets  of  the  poor.  That  is  why,  more  even  than 
for  the  friendship  you  and  yours  have  shown  me,  I  ask  you 
to  accept  the  dedication  of  this  little  volume. 
"Believe  me  always, 

"Yours  affectionately, 

"Alfred  Austin. 

"SwinfordOld  Manor, 
"Mayday  1894." 

A  House-Boat  on  the  Styx.     By  John  Kendrick  Bangs. 
1895. 

"To  Henry  Loomis  Nelson,  through  whose  acquiescence 
these  pages  were  first  inflicted  upon  a  long-suffering  public, 
this  book  is  dedicated  with  the  hope  that  it  may  be  some 
weeks  before  he  becomes  eligible  for  membership  among 
the  Associated  Shades." 

The  Mind  of  the  Master.     By  Ian  Maclaren.     1896. 

"To  my  people  in  gratefvil  recognition  of  their  charity, 
loyalty,  and  patience." 


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Following  the  Equator.     By  Mark  Twain.     1897. 

"This  book  is  affectionately  inscribed  to  my  young  friend 
Harry  Rogers,  with  recognition  of  what  he  is,  and  apprehen- 
sion of  what  he  may  become  unless  he  form  himself  a  little 
more  closely  upon  the  model  of  The  Author." 

Friendship.    By  Hugh  Black.     1898. 

"To  my  friend  Hector  Munro  Ferguson  and  to  many 
other  friends  who  have  made  life  rich." 

Wisdom  and  Destiny.     By  Maurice  Maeterlinck.     Trans- 
lated by  Alfred  Sutro.     1898. 

"To  Mme  Georgette  Leblanc: 

"  I  dedicate  to  you  this  book,  which  is,  as  it  were,  your 
work.  There  is  a  collaboration  loftier  and  more  real  than 
that  of  the  pen;  it  is  the  collaboration  of  thought  and  ex- 
ample. And  thus  I  have  not  been  compelled  laboriously 
to  imagine  the  thoughts  and  actions  of  an  ideal  sage,  or  to 
frame  in  my  heart  the  moral  of  a  beautiful  but  shadowy 
dream.  I  had  only  to  listen  to  your  words,  and  to  let  my 
eyes  follow  you  attentively  in  life;  for  then  they  were 
following  the  words,  the  movements,  the  habits,  of  wisdom 
itself." 

Cyrano  de  Bergerac.     By  Edmond  Rostand.     1898. 

"It  was  my  intent  to  dedicate  this  poem  to  the  soul  of 
Cyrano,  but  since  that  soul  has  entered  into  thy  soul, 
Coquelin,  I  dedicate  it  to  thee." 

/  A  Duet.     By  A.  Conan  Doyle.     1899. 

"To  Mrs.  Maude  Crosse. 

"Dear  Maude: 

"All  the  little  two-oared  boats  which  put  out  into  the 
great  ocean  have  need  of  some  chart  which  will  show  them 
how  to  lay  their  course.     Each  starts  full  of  happiness  and 


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confidence,  and  yet  we  know  how  many  founder,  for  it  is 
no  easy  voyage,  and  there  are  rocks  and  sandbanks  upon 
the  way.  So  I  give  a  few  pages  of  your  own  private  log, 
which  tell  of  days  of  peace  and  days  of  storm, — such  storms 
as  seem  very  petty  from  the  deck  of  a  high  ship,  but  are 
serious  for  the  two-oared  boats.  If  your  peace  should  help 
another  to  peace  or  your  storm  console  another  who  is 
storm-tossed,  then  I  know  that  you  will  feel  repaid  for  this 
intrusion  upon  your  privacy.  May  all  your  voyage  be  like 
the  outset,  and  when  at  last  the  oars  fall  from  your  hands, 
and  those  of  Frank,  may  other  loving  ones  be  ready  to  take 
their  turn  of  toil — and  so,  hon  voyage  ! 
"Ever  your  friend. 


"The  Author. 


"January  20,  1899. 


Ship  of  Stars.     By  A.  T.  Quiller-Couch.     1899. 

"To  Leonard  Henry  Courtney. 

"Lord  make  men  as  towers" — 

"All  towers  carry  a  light." 

"Although  for  you  heaven  has  seen  fit  to  darken  the 
light,  believe  me,  it  shines  outwards  over  the  waters,  and 
is  a  help  to  men;  a  leading  light  tended  by  brave  hands. 

"We  pray  Sir — we  who  sail  in  little  boats — for  long  life 
towers  and  the  unfaltering  lamp." 

History  of  the  Christian  Church.     By  George  Park  Fisher. 
1900. 

"Dedicated  as  a  token  of  friendship  to  Charles  and 
Arthur  Scribner  with  affectionate  recollections  of  their 
father  and  brother." 

Wild  Life  at  Home.     By  Richard  Eearton.     1901. 

"To  a  host  of  dear  old  comrades,  toihng  within  sound 
of  the  beloved  hum  of  Fleet  Street." 


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Poems.     By  Philip  Henry  Savage.     1901. 

"To  Citriodora  [i.  e.,  "lemon- verbena"]. 

"I  turn  and  see  you  passing  in  the  street. 
When  you  are  not,  I  take  another  way, 
Lest  missing  you  the  fragrance  of  the  day 
Exhale,  and  I  know  not  that  it  is  sweet. 
And  marking  you  I  follow  and  when  we  meet 
Love  laughs  to  see  how  sudden  I  am  gay: 
Sweetens  the  air  with  fragrance  like  a  spray 
Of  sweet  verbena,  and  bids  my  heart  to  beat. 

"Love  laughs,  and  girls  that  take  you  by  the  hand, 
Know  that  a  sweet  thing  has  befallen  them: 
And  women  give  their  hearts  into  your  heart. 
There  is,  I  think,  no  man  in  all  the  land. 
But  would  be  glad  to  touch  your  garment's  hem. 
And  I,  I  love  you  with  a  love  apart." 

A  Woman's  Hardy  Garden.     By  Helen  Rutherford  Ely. 
1903. 

"To  the  best  friend  of  my  garden,  who,  with  heart  and 
hands,  has  helped  to  make  it  what  it  is." 

My  Old  Maid's  Corner.    By  Lillie  Hamilton  French.    1903. 

"To  Helen  Naomi  Salomon,  a  well-beloved  'Sister  in 
the  Bond.'" 

Art  Out  of  Doors.     By  Mrs.  Schuyler  Van  Rensselaer. 
1903. 

"To  the  friends  in  Brookline,  who  taught  me  to  care  for 
the  art  which  stands  nearest  to  nature." 

That  Printer  of  Udell's.     By  Harold  Bell  Wright.     1903. 

"To  that  Friend  whose  life  has  taught  me  many  beauti- 
ful Truths ;  whose  words  have  strengthened  and  encouraged 


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me  to  live  more  true  to  my  God,  my  fellows  and  myself; 
who  hoped  for  me  when  others  lost  hope;  who  believed  in 
me  when  others  could  not;  who  saw  good  when  others 
looked  for  evil;  To  that  Friend  whoever  he  is,  wherever 
he  may  be,  I  affectionately  dedicate  this  story." 

Our  National  Parks.     By  John  Muir.     1904. 

"To  Charles  Sprague  Sargent,  steadfast  lover  and 
defender  of  our  country's  forests,  this  little  book  is  affec- 
tionately dedicated." 

Matthew  Arnold.     By  George  William  Erskine  Russell. 
1904. 

"Offered  to  Matthew  Arnold's  children  with  affectionate 
remembrance  'of  that  unretuming  day.'" 

The  Joy  of  Life.     By  Lillie  Hamilton  French.     1905. 

"To  Janet  Emmet  Griswold,  whose  joy  is  that  of  St. 
Francis,  this  book  is  dedicated  in  gratitude  and  affection." 

Children  of  Good  Fortune.     By  C.  Hanford  Henderson. 
1905. 

DEDICATION 

"To  those  gracious  spirits  who  in  life  and  in  literature 
are  helping  me  to  discover  in  what  good  fortune  consists." 

Talks  in  a  Library  with  Laurence  Hutton.     Recorded  by 
Isabel  Moore.     1905. 

"To  Joseph  Jefferson,  the  best  of  men;  the  best  of  friends; 
and  the  only  player  in  his  own  group. 

"L.  H." 


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^The  Poetry  of  Tennyson.     By  Henry  Van  Dyke.     1905. 
loth  edition. 

"To  a  young  woman  of  an  old  fashion,  who  loves  art 
not  for  its  own  sake,  but  because  it  ennobles  life;  who  reads 
poetry,  not  to  kill  time,  but  to  fill  it  with  beautiful  thoughts; 
and  who  still  believes  in  God  and  duty  and  immortal  love 
— I  dedicate  this  book." 

Mornings  in  the    College    Chapel.     Second  Series.    By 
Francis  G.  Peabody.     1907. 

"to  g.  a.  g. 

"Twenty  years  ago  we  were  set  to  keep  the  light; 
Five  of  us  shared  watch  through  the  first  long  winter's 

night : 
One,  our  captain,  sank  in  duty's  pitiless  foam, 
Two,  our  veterans,  wa  t  by  the  shore  for  their  summons 

home. 
The  years  and  the  faces  pass,  and  the  keepers  come  and  go, 
Like  the  sea  of  life  beneath  them,  with  its  ceaseless  ebb 

and  flow. 
Still  at  your  post  you  stand,  high  up  in  the  lighthouse 

tower, 
Guarding  the  way  of  life,  speaking  the  word  of  power; 
Resolute,  tender,  wise,  free  in  the  love  of  the  truth, 
Tending  the  flame  of  the  Christ,  as  it  marks  our  channel 

of  youth. 
And  the  task  we  were  set,  my  brother,  has  it  failed  in 

these  twenty  years. 
Has  the  light  gone  out  in  the  night  of  doubt,  or  the  smoth- 
ering fog  of  fears? 
Thank  God,  in  the  shifting  tides  of  life,  the  tower  of  prayer 

still  stands, 
And  in  His  home  the  undimmed  flame  is  fed  by  loyal 

hands. 


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What  shall  we  pledge  to  the  College  which  trusted  us  so, 

my  friend, 
But  a  loving  prayer,  and  a  constant  care  to  serve  her  to 

the  end?" 

The  Way  to  Happiness.    By  Thomas  R.  Slicer.     1907. 

"This  book  is  dedicated  to  every  friend  who  along  the 
way  has  added  '  Sunshine  to  daylight.' " 

The  Servant  in  the  House.    By  Charles  Rann  Kennedy. 
1908. 

"To  Walter  Hampden: 

"'There's  a  lot  o'  brothers  knockin'  abaht  as  people 
don't  know  on,  eh  what?     See  wot  I  mean?'" 

Poems.     By  Francis  Thompson.     1908. 

"Dedication  to  Wilfred  and  AHce  Meynell. 
"  If  the  rose  in  meek  duty 

May  dedicate  humbly 
To  her  grower  the  beauty 

Wherewith  she  is  comely ; 
If  the  mine  to  the  miner 

The  jewels  that  pined  in  it, 
Earth  to  diviner 

The  springs  he  divined  in  it; 
To  the  grapes  the  wine-pitcher 

Their  juice  that  was  crushed  in  it; 
Viol  to  its  witcher 

The  music  lay  hushed  in  it ; 
If  the  lips  may  pay  Gladness 

In  laughter  she  wakened 
And  the  heart  to  its  sadness 

Weeping  unslakened ; 


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If  the  hid  and  sealed  coffer 

Whose  having  not  his  is, 
To  the  losers  may  proffer 

Their  finding — here  this  is; 
Their  lives  if  all  livers, 

To  the  Life  of  all  living, — 
To  you,  O  dear  givers, 

I  give  your  own  giving!" 

The  Meynells  befriended  Francis  Thompson  when  he  was 
practically  in  the  gutter,  and  pulled  him  up  and  out,  so  that  the 
spirit  of  gratefulness  is  beautiful  as  well  as  the  verse. 

Ocean  Life  in  the  Old  Sailing-Ship  Days.     By  John  D. 
Whidden.     1908. 

"To  Captain  Joseph  W.  Clapp  of  Nantucket: 
"Dear  Old  Boy: — Although  nearly  fourscore  years  have 
silvered  your  head,  you  yet  retain  your  mirth  and  sense  of 
humor,  as  evidenced  by  your  frequent  letters,  which  have 
been  to  me  a  source  of  inspiration.  To  you,  then,  in  mem- 
ory of  the  pleasant  days  passed  in  genial  companionship 
in  old  Montevideo,  S.  A.,  upwards  of  forty  years  ago,  this 
work  is  affectionately  dedicated  by  the  author." 

The  Spirit  of  Youth  and  the  City  Streets.     By  Jane  Addams. 
1909. 

"To  my  dear  friend,  Louise  de  Koven  Bo  wen,  with 
sincere  admiration  for  her  understanding  of  the  needs  of 
the  city  children  and  with  warm  appreciation  of  her  service 
as  President  of  the  Juvenile  Protection  Association  of 
Chicago." 

Dr.  Johnson  and  Mrs.  Thrale.     By  A.  M.  Broadley.     1909. 

"To  my  loyal  friend,  James  Penderel-Brodhurst,  a 
Staffordshire  man  both  by  birth  and  affection,  a  lineal 


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descendant  of  Hiimphrey  Penderel  of  Boscobel  and  a 
kinsman  of  one  of  Samuel  Johnson's  early  friends  and 
contemporaries,  this  volume  is  inscribed." 

Our  Village.     By  Joseph  C.Lincoln.     1909. 

"to  s.  e.  h. 

"Who  knew  and  loved  Our  House, 
And  those  who  dwelt  therein." 

The  Immigrant  Tide,  Its  Ebb  and  Flow.     By  Edward  A. 
Steiner.     1909. 

"To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bayard  Henry,  Americans: 
"In  whom  blend  all  the  nobler  strains  which  made  the 
past  illustrious,  and  who  are  awake  to  the  peril  and  the 
opportunities  of  the  hour,  this  book  is  cordially  inscribed." 

What 's  Wrong  with  the  World.     By  GUbert  K.  Chester- 
ton.    1 910. 

"To  C.  F.  G.  Masterman,  M.D. 

"My  dear  Charles: — 

"I  originally  called  this  book  'What  is  Wrong,*  and  it 
would  have  satisfied  your  sardonic  temper  to  note  the 
number  of  social  misunderstandings  that  arose  from  the 
use  of  the  title.  Many  a  mild  lady  visitor  opened  her  eyes 
when  I  remarked  casually,  'I  have  been  doing  What  is 
Wrong  all  this  morning.'  And  one  minister  of  religion 
moved  quite  sharply  in  his  chair  when  I  told  him  (as  he 
understood  it)  that  I  had  to  run  upstairs  and  do  what  was 
wrong,  but  would  be  down  again  in  a  minute.  Exactly  of 
what  occult  vice  they  silently  accused  me  I  cannot  con- 
jecture, but  I  know  of  what  I  accuse  myself ;  and  that  is,  of 
having  written  a  very  shapeless  and  inadequate  book,  and 
one  quite  unworthy  to  be  dedicated  to  you.  As  far  as 
literature  goes,  this  book  is  wrong,  and  no  mistake. 


320  Dedications 


"It  may  seem  a  refinement  of  insolence  to  present  so 
wild  a  composition  to  one  who  has  recorded  two  or  three 
of  the  really  impressive  visions  of  the  moving  millions  of 
England.  You  are  the  only  man  alive  who  can  make  the 
map  of  England  crawl  with  life ;  a  most  creepy  and  enviable 
accomplishment.  Why  then  should  I  trouble  you  with  a 
book  which,  even  if  it  achieves  its  object  (which  is  mon- 
strously unhkely)  can  only  be  a  thundering  gallop  of 
theory? 

"Well,  I  do  it  partly  because  I  think  you  politicians  are 
none  the  worse  for  a  few  inconvenient  ideals;  but  more 
because  you  will  recognize  the  many  arguments  we  have 
had;  those  arguments  which  the  most  wonderful  ladies  in 
the  world  can  never  endure  for  very  long.  And,  perhaps, 
you  will  agree  with  me  that  the  thread  of  comradeship  and 
conversation  must  be  protected  because  it  is  so  frivolous. 
It  must  be  held  sacred,  it  must  not  be  snapped,  because  it 
is  not  worth  tying  together  again.  It  is  exactly  because 
argument  is  idle  that  men  (I  mean  males)  must  take  it 
seriously ;  for  when  (we  feel) ,  until  the  crack  of  doom,  shall 
we  have  so  delightful  a  difference  again?  But  most  of  all 
I  offer  it  to  you  because  there  exists  not  only  comradeship, 
but  a  very  different  thing,  called  friendship ;  an  agreement 
under  all  the  argiunents  and  a  thread  which,  please  God, 
will  never  break. 

"Yours  always, 

"G.  K.  Chesterton." 

Patience  and  Her  Garden.    By  Ida  Smith  Decker.     1910. 

"To  my  busy  friends  outside  their  Gardens." 

Billy  Topsail  and  Company.     By  Norman  Dimcan.     191 0. 

"To  Chauncey  Lewis  and  to  'Buster, '  good  friends  both, 
sometimes  to  recall  to  them  places  and  occasions  at  Mike 
Man's:  Dead  Man's  Point,  Rolling  Ridge,  the  Canoe  Land- 


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ing,  the  swift  and  wilful  waters  of  the  West  Branch,  Squaw 
Mountain,  the  trail  to  Dead  Stream,  the  raft  on  Horseshoe, 
the  Big  Fish,  the  gracious  kindness  of  the  L.  L.  of  E.  O.  (as 
well  as  her  sandwiches),  and  the  never-to-be-forgotten 
flapjacks  that '  did  n't  look  it, '  but  were  indeed  '  all  there. 

The  Broad  Highway.     By  Jeffrey  Famol.     1910. 

"To  Shirley  Byron  Jevons,  the  friend  of  my  boyish 
ambitions,  this  work  is  dedicated  as  a  mark  of  my  gratitude, 
affection,  and  esteem." 

For  God  and  the  People.    By  Walter  Rauschenbusch. 
1910. 

"To  my  friends  at  Rochester,  whose  love  has  been  my 
cheer." 

Life  and  Art  of  Richard  Mansfield.     By  William  Winter. 
1910. 

"To  Herman  H.  Kohlsaat  because  he  loved  and  honoured 
Richard  Mansfield,  and  by  him  was  loved  and  honoured, 
and  because  my  book  will  be  enriched  by  association  with 
his  name,  I  dedicate  this  memorial  of  a  fine  genius  and  a 
brilliant  life. 

"  'Friend  through  long  years  of  pleasure  and  of  pain 
Nor  time,  nor  death  itself  can  wholly  part, 
For  here  at  memory's  shrine  they  meet  again 
In  the  sweet  converse  of  the  faithful  heart.'" 

Keeping  Up  with  Lizzie.     By  Irving  Bacheller.     191 1. 

"To  the  loving  and  beloved  Mr.  Onedear,  I  dedicate  this 
little  book." 

The  Leaves  of  the  Tree.    By  Arthur  Christopher  Benson. 
1911. 

"To  Reginald  John  Smith,  once  my  fagmaster,  now  my 
publisher,  always  my  friend,  I  dedicate  this  book." 


322  Dedications 


John  Burns :  The  Rise  and  Progress  of  a  Right  Honourable. 
By  Joseph  Burgess.     191 1. 

"To  William  Martin  Haddow,  Glasgow  School  Board, 
'the  Children's  Friend'  and  my  leal  comrade." 

Mark  Twain.     By  Archibald  Henderson.     191 1. 

"To  C.  Alphonso  Smith,  scholar,  good  fellow,  friend." 

The  Ice  Age  in  North  America.     By  George  Frederick 
Wright      191 1. 

"To  Elisha  Gray,  Chevalier  de  la  legion  d'honneur, 
inventor  of  the  harmonic  telegraph,  the  telephone  and  the 
telautograph,  whose  intelligent  interest  in  glacial  geology 
and  whose  generous  appreciation  of  my  work  has  been  a 
constant  inspiration,  this  volume  is  affectionately  dedicated. ' ' 

The  South  Pole.     By  Roald  Amundsen.     Translated  from 
the  Norwegian  by  A  G.  Chater.     191 2. 

"To  my  comrades,  the  brave  little  band  that  promised 
in  Funchal  Roads  to  stand  by  me  in  the  struggle  for  the 
South  Pole,  I  dedicate  this  book. 

"Roald  Amundsen. 

"  Uranienborg,  August  15,  191 2." 

Dancing  and  Dancers  of  To-day.     By  Carolina  and  Charles 
H.  Caf&n.     1912. 

"To  the  friends  whose  interest  in  the  expressional  inter- 
pretation of  the  dance  has  encoiu"aged  us  to  write  this  book." 

A  Book  of  Hand  Woven  Coverlets.    By  Eliza  Calvert  Hall. 
1912. 

'  To  the  memory  of  William  Wade. 
" 'The  gentle  minde, 

By  gentle  Deeds  is  Knowne."* 


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The  Maker  of  Rainbows.    By  Richard  Le  Gallienne.     1912. 

"That  this  volume  shall  be  entirely  in  keeping  with  its 
fairy  tale  contents,  I  dedicate  it  to  my  good  friends  its 
publishers,  Harper  and  Brothers,  in  remembrance  of  kindly 
relations  between  them  and  its  writer  seldom  found  out  of 
a  fairy  tale." 

The  Montessori  Method.    By  Maria  Montessori.    Trans- 
lated from  the  Italian  by  Anne  E.  George.     1912. 

"I  place  at  the  beginning  of  this  volume,  now  appearing 
in  the  United  States,  her  fatherland,  the  dear  name  of 
Alice  Hallgarten  of  New  York,  who  by  her  marriage  to 
Baron  Leopold  Franchetti  became  by  choice  our  compatriot. 

"Ever  a  firm  believer  in  the  principles  underlying  Case 
dei  Bambini,  she,  with  her  husband,  forwarded  the  publi- 
cation of  this  book  in  Italy,  and,  throughout  the  last  year 
of  her  short  life,  greatly  desired  the  English  translation 
which  should  introduce  to  the  land  of  her  birth  the  work 
so  near  her  heart. 

"To  her  memory  I  dedicate  this  book,  whose  pages,  like 
an  ever-living  flower,  perpetuate  the  recollection  of  her 
beneficence." 

The  Rich  Mrs.  Burgoyne.     By  Kathleen  Norris.     1912. 

"To  Kathleen  Mary  Thompson: — 

"Lover  of  books,  who  never  fails  to  find 
Some  good  in  every  book,  your  namesake  sends 
This  book  to  you,  knowing  you  always  kind 
To  small  things,  timid,  and  in  need  of  friends." 

New  Industrial  Day.     By  W  C.  Redfield.     1912. 

"To  those  friends  at  hammer,  machine  and  vice  with 
whom  it  was  my  privilege  to  be  long  associated,  whose 
loyalty  has  endured  through  years  and  whose  confidence 
has  always  been  an  inspiration." 


324  Dedications  to  Friends 

The  Call  of  Brotherhood  and  Other  Poems.     By  Corinne 
Roosevelt-Robinson.     1912. 

"To  Frances  Theodora  Parsons,  the  friend  to  whose 
inspiration  and  compan  onship  I  owe  my  happiest  hours 
with  books  and  nature." 

The  Memoir  of  Sir  Horace  Mami.    By  Giberne  Sieveking. 
1912. 

"To  Dr.  Makalua,  to  whose  skill  and  friendship  I  gladly 
owe  a  debt  not  easily  to  be  repaid  and  not  ever  to  be  for- 
gotten." 


XV 

Uo  IRelatipes 


an 


XV 
Uo  IRelatfpes 

The   Countess  of  Pembroke*s   Arcadia.    By  Sir  Philip 
Sidney.     1590. 

"To  my  dear  lady  and  sister,  the  Countess  of  Pembroke. 
Here  now  have  you  (most  dear,  and  most  worthy  to  be  most 
dear  'ady)  this  idle  work  of  mine:  which  I  fear  (like  the 
spider's  web)  will  be  thought  fitter  to  be  swept  away,  than 
worn  to  any  other  purpose.  For  my  part,  in  very  truth 
(as  the  cruel  fathers  among  the  Greeks  were  wont  to  do  to 
the  babes  they  would  not  foster)  I  could  well  find  in  my 
heart,  to  cast  out  in  some  desert  of  forgetfulness  this  child, 
which  I  am  loathe  to  father.  But  you  desired  me  to  do  it, 
and  your  desire,  to  my  heart  is  an  absolute  commandment. 
Now,  it  is  done  only  for  you,  only  to  you:  if  you  keep  it 
to  yourself,  or  to  such  friends,  who  will  weigh  errors  in  the 
balance  of  goodwill,  I  hope,  for  the  father's  sake,  it  will  be 
pardoned,  perchance  made  much  of,  though  in  itself  it 
have  deformities.  For  indeed,  for  severer  eyes  it  is  not, 
being  but  a  trifle  and  that  trifiingly  handled.  Your  dear 
self  can  best  witness  the  manner,  being  done  in  loose  sheets 
of  paper,  most  of  it  in  your  presence,  the  rest,  by  sheets, 
sent  unto  you,  as  fast  as  they  were  done.  In  sum,  a  young 
head,  not  so  well  stayed  as  I  would  it  were  (and  shall  be 
when  God  will),  having  many  fancies  begotten  in  it,  if  it 
had  not  been  in  some  way  delivered,  would  have  grown  a 
monster,  and  more  sorry  might  I  be  that  they  came  in, 
than  that  they  gat  out.     But  his  chief  safety,  shall  be  the 

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328  Dedications 


not  walking  abroad;  and  his  chief  protection,  the  bearing 
the  livery  of  your  name;  which  (if  much  goodwill  do  not 
deceive  me)  is  worthy  to  be  a  sanctuary  for  a  greater  of- 
fender. This  say  I,  because  I  know  the  virtue  so;  and  this 
say  I,  because  it  may  be  ever  so,  or  to  say  better,  because 
it  will  be  ever  so.  Read  it  then  at  your  idle  times,  and  the 
follies  your  good  judgment  will  find  in  it,  blame  not,  but 
laugh  at.  And  so  looking  for  no  better  stuff  than,  as  in 
an  haberdasher's  shop,  glasses,  or  feathers,  you  will  continue 
to  love  the  writer,  who  doth  exceedingly  love  you ;  and  most 
most  heartily  prays  you  may  long  live,  to  be  a  principal  or- 
nament to  the  family  of  the  Sidney's.     Your  loving  brother, 

"Philip  Sidney." 

Miscelanea,    Meditations,    Memoratives.     By    Elizabeth 
Grymeston.     1604. 

"To  my  loving  sonne,  Bemye  Grymeston. 

"My  dearest  sonne,  there  is  nothing  so  strong  as  the 
force  of  love,  there  is  no  love  so  forcible  as  the  love  of  an 
affectionate  mother  to  her  naturall  childe ;  there  is  no  mother 
can  either  more  affectionately  shew  her  nature,  or  more 
naturally  manifest  her  affection,  than  in  advising  her  child 
out  of  her  owne  experience,  to  eschew  evill  and  encline 
them  to  do  that  which  is  good.  .  .  .  Thou  seest  my  love 
hath  carried  me  beyond  the  list  I  resolved  on,  and  my  aking 
head  and  trembling  hand  have  rather  a  will  to  offer,  than 
abilitie  to  affoord  further  discourse.  Wherefore,  with  as 
many  good  wishes  to  thee  as  good  will  can  measure,  I 
abruptly  end,  desiring  God  to  blesse  thee  with  sorrow  for 
thy  sinnes,  thankefulnesse  for  his  benefits,  feare  of  his 
judgments,  love  of  his  mercies,  mindfulnes  of  his  presence, 
that  living  in  his  feare,  thou  mayst  die  in  his  favor,  rest  in 
his  peace,  rise  in  his  power,  remaine  in  his  glory  for  ever 
and  ever. 

"Thine  assured  loving  Mother, 

' '  Elizabeth  Grymeston . ' ' 

(Quoted  from  Wheatley's  Dedication  of  Books.) 


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An  Exposition  of  the  Dominical  Epistles  and  Gospels  Used 

in    our   English   Liturgie      By   John   Boys,    Doctor    of 

Divinitie.     1615. 

"To  THE  Virtuous  and  Worthy  Knight  Sir  John  Boys, 
of  Canterbury,  my  very  good  Vncle,  Grace  and  Peace. 

"Sir,  you  did  first  plant  my  studies,  Archbishop  White- 
gift  that  president  of  piety,  watered  them,  and  God  gave 
increase:  to  God  as  to  the  fountaine  of  all  goodness,  I  con- 
secrate all  that  I  have:  to  your  happy  memories,  as  to  the 
conduits  of  much  good,  I  dedicate  this  ensuing  Postill, 
especially  to  yourselfe  surviving,  as  to  my  best  Patron  in 
Cambridge,  where  the  foundation  of  this  worke  was  laid; 
unto  yourselfe,  as  to  the  chiefe  procurer  of  that  small 
Benefice,  where  the  frame  was  rais'd;  unto  yourselfe,  as  to 
the  lively  pattern  of  that  doctrine,  which  is  heere  delivered. 

"Accept  it  as  your  owne — ;for  it  beares  your  name,  and 
resembling  you  much,  endevors  to  honor  you  long:  so  you 
shall  encourage  mee  daily  to  lessen  my  debt  to  the  Church, 
and 

"increase  mine  obligations  to  your 
"selfe,  that  living  and  dying 

"I  may  continue  Your  most  bounden  Nephew, 

"John  Boys." 

Pooms  by  Charles  Lamb  of  the  India  House.  (Included 
in  Poems  by  S.  T.  Coleridge,  to  which  are  now  added 
Poems  by  Charles  Lamb  and  Charles   Lloyd.)     1797. 

the  dedication 

"The  few  following  poems,  creatures  of  the  fancy  and 
the  feeling  in  life's  more  vacant  hours,  produced,  for  the 
most  part,  by  love  in  idleness;  are,  with  all  a  brother's 
fondness, 

"  Inscribed  to 

"  Mary  Anne  Lamb 

"the  author's  best  friend  and  sister." 


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Lamb  wrote,  in  a  letter  to  Coleridge,  Nov.  14th,  1796,  "I  mean 
to  inscribe  them  [the  poems]  to  my  sister.  It  will  be  unexpected, 
and  it  will  give  her  pleasure;  .  .  .  There  is  a  monotony  in  the 
affections,  which  people  living  together  or,  as  we  do  now,  very 
frequently  seeing  each  other,  are  apt  to  give  in  to:  a  sort  of  indiffer- 
ence in  the  expression  of  kindness  for  each  other,  which  demands 
that  we  should  sometimes  call  to  our  aid  the  trickery  of  surprise." 
Of  the  poems,  he  goes  on  to  say  that  he  has  taken  his  leave  of  love 
— "a  passion  which  has  reigned  so  royally  (so  long)  within  me. 
...  I  am  wedded,  Coleridge,  to  the  fortunes  of  my  sister  and  my 
poor  old  father."  The  tragic  murder  of  her  mother  by  Mary 
Lamb,  in  a  fit  of  insanity,  had  occurred  in  September  of  this  year, 
and  Mary  Lamb  was  still  in  restraint  at  the  time  of  this  dedication. 

Queen  Mab.     By  Percy  Bysshe  Shelley.     1813. 

"to  HARRIET    ,    ,    . 

"Whose  is  the  love  that  gleaming  through  the  world, 
Wards  ofif  the  poisonous  arrows  of  its  scorn? 
Whose  is  the  warm  and  partial  praise, 
Virtue's  most  sweet  reward? 

"Beneath  whose  looks  did  my  reviving  soul 
Riper  in  truth  and  virtuous  daring  grow? 
Whose  eyes  have  I  gazed  fondly  on, 
And  loved  mankind  the  more? 

"Harriet,  on  thine: — thou  wert  my  purer  mind; 
Thou  wert  the  inspiration  of  my  song, 
•     Thine  are  these  early  wilding  flowers. 
Though  garlanded  by  me. 

"Then  press  into  thy  breast  this  pledge  of  love; 
And  know,  though  time  may  change  and  years  may  roll, 
Each  floweret  gathered  in  my  heart, 
It  consecrates  to  thine." 


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There  is  a  little  doubt  as  to  which  Harriet  Shelley  meant — 
Harriet  Grove,  with  whom  he  was  in  love  in  1810,  when  Med  win 
thinks  the  poem  was  written,  or  Harriet  Shelley,  the  poet's  first 
wife.  If  written  for  the  first  Harriet,  the  dedication  was  neverthe- 
less allowed  to  stand  in  18 13,  when  only  Harriet  Shelley  could  have 
been  understood.  To  Mary  Shelley,  his  second  wife,  the  poet 
dedicated  his  Witch  of  Atlas,  written  in  1824,  though  the  dedication 
was  not  published  until  the  edition  of  1839. 

History  of  the  Reign  of  Ferdinand  and  Isabella.     By  Wil- 
liam H.  Prescott.     1838. 

"To  the  Honorable  William  Prescott,  LL.D.,  the  guide 
of  my  youth,  my  best  friend  in  riper  years,  these  volumes, 
with  the  warmest  feelings  of  fiHal  affection,  are  respectfiilly 
inscribed." 

Pilgrims  of  the  Rhine.    By  Lord  Lytton.     1840. 

"To  Henry  Lytton  Bulwer. 

"Allow  me,  my  dear  Brother,  to  dedicate  this  work  to 
you.  The  greater  part  of  it  (viz.,  the  tales  which  vary  and 
relieve  the  voyages  of  Gertrude  and  Trevylyan)  was  written 
in  the  pleasant  excursion  we  made  together  some  years 
ago.  Among  the  associations — some  sad,  and  some  pleas- 
ing— connected  with  the  general  design,  none  are  so  agree- 
able to  me  as  those  that  remind  me  of  the  friendship 
subsisting  between  us,  and  which,  unlike  that  of  near  rela- 
tions in  general,  has  grown  stronger  and  more  intimate  as 
our  footsteps  have  receded  farther  from  the  fields  where 
we  played  together  in  our  childhood.  I  dedicate  this  Work 
to  you  with  the  more  pleasure,  not  only  when  I  remember 
that  it  has  always  been  a  favorite  with  yourself,  but  when 
I  think  that  it  is  one  of  my  writings  most  liked  in  foreign 
countries;  and  I  may  possibly,  therefore,  have  found  a 
record  destined  to  endure  the  affectionate  esteem  which 
this  Dedication  is  intended  to  convey. 

"Yours  etc. 

"E.  L.  B. 

"London,  April  23,  1840." 


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A  start  in  Life.     By  Honore  de  Balzac.     1842. 

"To  Laure,  to  whose  bright  and  modest  wit  I  owe  the 
idea  of  this  scene.     Hers  be  the  honor ! 

"Her  brother, 

"De  Balzac." 

A  Residence  of  Eight  Years  in  Persia  among  the  Nestorian 
Christians.     By  the  Reverend  Justin  Perkins.     1843. 

"To  a  mother,  who  in  widowhood,  age,  infirmity,  and 
dependence  gave  her  son  to  the  missionary  work, — this 
voltime  is  affectionately  inscribed  by  that  son." 

Poems.     By  Elizabeth  Barrett.     1844. 

"dedication  to  my  father 

"When  your  eyes  fall  upon  this  page  of  dedication,  and 
you  start  to  see  to  whom  it  is  inscribed,  your  first  thought 
will  be  of  the  time  far  off  when  I  was  a  child  and  wrote 
verses,  and  when  I  dedicated  them  to  you,  who  were  my 
public  and  my  critic.  Of  all  that  such  a  recollection  implies 
of  saddest  and  sweetest  to  both  of  us,  it  would  become 
neither  of  us  to  speak  before  the  world;  nor  would  it  be 
possible  for  us  to  speak  of  it  to  one  another,  with  voices 
that  did  not  falter.  Enough,  that  what  is  in  my  heart 
when  I  write  this,  will  be  fully  known  to  yours. 

"And  my  desire  is  that  you,  who  are  a  witness  how  if 
this  art  of  poetry  had  been  a  less  earnest  object  to  me,  it 
must  have  fallen  from  exhausted  hands  before  this  day, 
— that  you,  who  have  shared  with  me  in  things  bitter  and 
sweet,  softening  or  enhancing  them  every  day — that  you, 
who  hold  with  me  over  all  sense  of  loss  and  transiency, 
one  hope  by  one  Name, — may  accept  the  inscription  of  these 
volumes,  the  exponents  of  a  few  years  of  an  existence  which 
has  been  sustained  and  comforted  by  you  as  well  as  given. 
Somewhat  more  faint-hearted  than  I  used  to  be,  it  is  my 


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f- 


fancy  thus  to  seem  to  return  to  a  visible  personal  depend- 
ence on  you,  as  if  indeed  I  were  a  child  again;  to  conjure 
your  beloved  image  between  myself  and  the  public,  so  as 
to  be  sure  of  one  smile, — and  to  satisfy  my  heart  while  I 
sanctify  my  ambition,  by  associating  with  the  great  pursuit 
of  my  life,  its  tenderest  and  noblest  aflEection. 

"Yours, 

"E.  B.  B. 
"London,  50  Wimpole  Street,  1844." 

Elizabeth  Barrett's  marriage  with  Robert  Browning — a  marriage 
that  led  to  a  permanent  estrangement  with  her  father — took  place 
two  years  later. 

The  Bell.     By  the  Reverend  Alfred  Gatty.     1848. 

"To  her  who  for  long  has  heard  the  bell  with  me,  and 
shared  in  its  gay  and  grave  associations,  the  companion 
of  my  life  and  partner  of  my  fortunes,  this  small  volume 
is  with  all  affection  inscribed." 

An  Art  Student  in  Munich.    By  Anna  Mary  Howitt.     1854. 

"To  my  beloved  parents,  whose  keen  love  of  nature,  and 
of  all  that  is  pure  and  true  in  life,  first  implanted  the  artist's 
aspiration  within  my  soul,  the  following  pages  are  affection- 
ately inscribed." 

Hypatia.    By  Charles  Kingsley.     1854. 

"To  my  father  and  my  mother: 

"My  dear  Parents: 

"When  you  shall  have  read  this  book,  and  considered 
the  view  of  himian  relationships  which  is  set  forth  in  it, 
you  will  be  at  no  loss  to  discover  why  I  have  dedicated  it  to 
you,  as  one  paltry  witness  of  an  union  and  of  a  debt  which, 
though  they  may  seem  to  have  begun  with  birth,  and  to 
have  grown  with  your  most  loving  education,  yet  cannot 
die  with  death:  but  are  spiritual,  indefeasible,  eternal  in 
the  heavens  with  that  God  from  whom  every  fatherhood 
in  heaven  and  earth  is  named.     (C.  K.)  " 


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One  Word  More.     By  Robert  Browning.     1855. 

"to  e.  b.  b. 

'  There  they  are,  my  fifty  men  and  women 
Naming  me  the  fifty  poems  finished! 
Take  them,  Love,  the  book  and  me  together: 
Where  the  heart  Hes,  let  the  brain  lie  also. 

"Love,  you  saw  me  gather  men  and  women, 
Live  or  dead  or  fashioned  by  my  fancy, 
Enter  each  and  all,  and  use  their  service. 
Speak  from  every  mouth, — the  speech,  a  poem. 
Hardly  shall  I  tell  my  joys  and  sorrows, 
Hopes  and  fears,  belief  and  disbelieving: 
I  am  mine  and  yours — the  rest  be  all  men's, 
Karshish,  Cleon,  Norbert,  and  the  fifty. 
Let  me  speak  this  once  in  my  true  person, 
Not  as  Lippo,  Roland,  or  Andrea, 
Though  the  fruit  of  speech  be  just  this  sentence: 
Pray  you,  look  on  these  my  men  and  women. 
Take  and  keep  my  fifty  poems  finished; 
Where  my  heart  lies,  let  my  brain  lie  also ! 
Poor  the  speech;  be  how  I  speak,  for  all  things. 

"Not  but  that  you  know  me!     Lo,  the  moon's  self! 
Here  in  London,  yonder  late  in  Florence, 
Still  we  find  her  face,  the  thrice- transfigured. 
Curving  on  a  sky  imbrued  with  color, 
Drifted  over  Fiesole  by  twilight, 
Came  she,  our  new  crescent  of  a  hair's-breadth. 
Full  she  flared  it,  lamping  Samminiato, 
Rounder  'twixt  the  cypresses  and  rounder, 
Perfect  till  the  nightingales  applauded. 
Now,  a  piece  of  her  old  self,  impoverished, 
Hard  to  greet,  she  traverses  the  house-roofs, 


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Hurries  with  unhandsome  thrift  of  silver, 
Goes  dispiritedly,  glad  to  finish. 

"What,  there  's  nothing  in  the  moon  noteworthy? 
Nay:  for  if  that  moon  could  love  a  mortal, 
Use,  to  charm  him  (so  to  fit  a  fancy), 
All  her  magic  ('tis  the  old  sweet  mythos), 
She  would  turn  a  new  side  to  her  mortal, 
Side  unseen  of  herdsman,  huntsman,  steersman — 
Blank  to  Zoroaster  on  his  terrace, 
Blind  to  Galileo  on  his  turret, 
Dumb  to  Homer,  dumb  to  Keats — him,  even! 
Think,  the  wonder  of  the  moonstruck  mortal — 
When  she  turns  round,  comes  again  in  heaven, 
Opens  out  anew  for  worse  or  better! 
Proves  she  like  some  portent  of  an  iceberg 
Swimming  full  upon  the  ship  it  founders, 
Hungry  with  huge  teeth  of  splintered  crystals? 
Proves  she  as  the  paved  work  of  a  sapphire 
Seen  by  Moses  when  he  climbed  the  mountain? 
Moses,  Aaron,  Nadab,  and  Abihu, 
Climbed  and  saw  the  very  God,  the  Highest, 
Stand  upon  the  paved  work  of  a  sapphire. 
Like  the  bodied  heaven  in  his  clearness 
Shone  the  stone,  the  sapphire  of  that  paved  work, 
When  they  ate  and  drank  and  saw  God  also! 

"What  were  seen?     None  knows,  none  ever  shall  know. 
Only  this  is  sure — the  sight  were  other, 
Not  the  moon's  same  side,  born  late  in  Florence, 
Dying  now  impoverished  here  in  London. 
God  be  thanked,  the  meanest  of  his  creatures 
Boasts  two  soul-sides,  one  to  face  the  world  with, 
One  to  show  a  woman  when  he  loves  her! 

"This  I  say  of  me,  but  think  of  you.  Love! 
This  to  you — yourself  my  moon  of  poets! 


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Ah,  but  that  's  the  world's  side,  there  's  the  wonder, 
Thus  they  see  you,  praise  you,  think  they  know  you! 
There,  in  turn  I  stand  with  them  and  praise  you — 
Out  of  my  own  self,  I  dare  to  phrase  it. 
But  the  best  is  when  I  ghde  from  out  them, 
Cross  a  step  or  two  of  dubious  twilight, 
Come  out  on  the  other  side,  the  novel 
Silent  silver  lights  and  darks  undreamed  of, 
Where  I  hush  and  bless  myself  with  silence. 

"Oh,  their  Rafael  of  the  dear  Madonnas, 
Oh,  their  Dante  of  the  dread  Inferno, 
Wrote  one  song — and  in  my  brain  I  sing  it. 
Drew  one  angel — borne,  see,  on  my  bosom!** 

This  was  originally  appended  to  the  second  volume  of  Men  and 
Women,  and  though  not  strictly  a  dedication  in  form,  it  is  one  in 
spirit. 

English  Literature.     By  Henry  Reed.     1855, 

"To  my  widowed  sister,  who,  for  the  sake  of  the  living, 
has  nobly  borne  her  sorrow  for  the  dead,  this  memorial 
volume  is  affectionately  inscribed." 

Aurora  Leigh     By  Elizabeth  Barrett  Browning      1856. 

"dedication  to  JOHN  KENYON,  ESQ." 

"The  words  'cousin'  and  'friend'  are  constantly  recur- 
ring in  this  poem,  the  last  pages  of  which  have  been  finished 
under  the  hospitality  of  your  roof,  my  own  dearest  cousin 
and  friend; — cousin  and  friend,  in  a  sense  of  less  equality 
and  greater  disinterestedness  than  'Rommey's.' 

"Ending,  therefore,  and  preparing  once  more  to  quit 
England,  I  venture  to  leave  in  your  hands  this  book,  the 
most  mature  of  my  works,  and  the  one  into  which  my  high- 
est convictions  upon  Life  and  Art  have  entered;  that  as, 
through  my  various  efforts  in  literature  and  steps  in  life. 


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you  have  believed  in  me,  borne  with  me,  and  been  gener- 
ous to  me,  far  beyond  the  common  uses  of  mere  relation- 
ship or  sympathy  of  mind,  so  you  may  kindly  accept,  in 
sight  of  the  public,  this  poor  sign  of  esteem,  gratitude, 
and  affection,  from 

"Your  imforgetting 

"E.  B.  B. 
"39  Devonshire  Place, 
"October  17,  1856." 

Mr.  Kenyon  died  in  December  of  this  year.  "Readers  of  these 
letters  do  not  require  to  be  told  how  near  and  dear  a  friend  he  had 
been  to  both  Mrs.  Browning  and  her  husband.  During  his  life 
his  friendship  had  taken  the  practical  form  of  allowing  them  loo  1. 
a  year,  in  order  that  they  might  be  more  free  to  follow  their  art 
for  its  own  sake  only,  and  in  his  will  he  left  6500  1.  to  Robert 
Browning  and  4500  1.  to  Mrs.  Browning.  These  were  the  largest 
legacies  in  a  very  generous  will — the  fitting  end  to  a  life  passed 
in  acts  of  generosity  and  kindness  to  those  in  need."  (From  the 
Letters  of  E.  B.  Browning.,  II.,  241.) 


Grace  Truman     By  Sallie  Rochester  Ford.     1857. 

"To  Elizabeth  T.  Pitts,  my  loved  and  venerated  grand- 
mother, who,  beneath  the  weight  of  eighty  years,  still 
cherishes  with  clear  conception  and  unabated  zeal  those 
principles,  which,  in  orphan  childhood,  I  learned  from  her 
lips,  this  tribute  to  their  advocacy  is  affectionately  inscribed. ' ' 


Tent  Life  in  the  Holy  Land.     By  William  C.  Prime.     1858. 

"To  the  memory  of  Nathaniel  S.  Prime,  our  reverend 
and  beloved  father,  who  while  we  were  climbing  the  moun- 
tains of  Lebanon,  on  the  morning  of  the  twenty-seventh  day 
of  March,  in  the  year  eighteen  hundred  and  fifty-six,  did 
ascend  into  the  Sublime  and  Solemn  Company  of  the 
Patriarchs  and  Prophets  of  all  Time,  I  dedicate  this  voltune." 


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Life  of  Frederick  William   Von    Steuben.     By  Friedrich 
Kapp.     1859. 

"To  the  memory  of  Friedrich  Engels,  late  Major-General 

in  the  Prussian  army  and  commandant  of  Cologne  on 
the  Rhine,  an  honest  man,  a  brave  soldier  and  a  true 
friend,  this  volume  is  dedicated  by  his  grateful  son-in-law, 
the  Author." 

Liberty.     By  John  Stuart  Mill.     1859. 

"To  the  beloved  and  deplored  memory  of  her  who  was 
the  inspirer,  and  in  part  the  author,  of  all  that  is  best  in  my 
writings — the  friend  and  wife  whose  exalted  sense  of  truth 
and  right  was  my  strongest  incitement,  and  whose  appro- 
bation was  my  chief  reward — I  dedicate  this  volvune.  Like 
all  that  I  have  written  for  many  years,  it  belongs  as  much 
to  her  as  to  me;  but  the  work  as  it  stands  has  had  in  a  very 
insufficient  degree  the  inestimable  advantage  of  her  re- 
vision; some  of  the  most  important  portions  having  been 
reserved  for  a  more  careful  re-examination  which  they  are 
now  never  destined  to  receive.  Were  I  but  capable  of 
interpreting  to  the  world  one-half  of  the  great  thoughts 
and  noble  feelings  which  are  buried  in  her  grave,  I  should  be 
the  medium  of  a  greater  benefit  to  it,  than  is  ever  likely  to 
arise  from  anything  that  I  can  write  unprompted  and 
unassisted  by  her  all  but  unrivalled  wisdom." 

The  Angel  in  the  House.     By  Coventry  Patmore.     1862. 

"This  poem  is  inscribed  to  the  memory  of  her  by  whom 
and  for  whom  I  became  a  poet." 

The  Poet's  Journal.     By  Bayard  Taylor.     1863. 

"inscription  to  the  mistress  of  cedarcroft." 

"The  evening  shadows  lengthen  on  the  lawn; 
Westward,  our  immemorial  chestnuts  stand, 
A  mount  of  shade:  but  o'er  the  cedars  drawn. 
Between  the  hedgerow  trees,  in  many  a  band — 


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Of  brightening  gold,  the  sunshine  lingers  on, 

And  soon  will  touch  our  oaks  with  parting  hand: 
And  down  the  distant  valley  all  is  still, 
And  flushed  with  purple  smiles  the  beckoning  hill, 

"Come,  leave  the  flowery  terrace,  leave  the  beds 
Where  southern  children  wake  to  northern  air, 
Let  yon  mimosas  droop  their  tufted  heads 

These  myrtle  trees  their  nuptial  beauty  wear, 
And  while  the  dying  day  reluctant  treads 
From  tree-top  unto  tree-top,  with  me  share 
The  scene's  idyllic  peace,  the  evening's  close, 
The  balm  of  twilight  and  the  land's  repose. 

"Come,  for  my  task  is  done:  the  task  that  drew 
My  footsteps  from  the  chambers  of  the  Day, — 
That  held  me  back,  Beloved,  even  from  you, 

That  are  my  daylight :  for  the  Poet's  way 
Turns  into  many  a  lonely  avenue 

Where  none  may  follow;  he  must  sing  his  lay 
First  to  himself,  then  to  the  One  most  dear. 
Last,  to  the  world.     Come  to  my  side,  and  hear. 

"The  poems  ripened  in  a  heart  at  rest, 

A  life  that  first  through  you  is  free  and  strong, 

Take  them  and  warm  them  in  your  partial  breast 
Before  they  try  the  common  air  of  Song! 

Fame  won  at  home  is  of  all  fame  the  best: 
Crown  me  your  poet,  and  the  Critic's  wrong 

Shall  harmless  strike  where  you  in  love  have  smiled, 

Wife  of  my  heart,  and  Mother  of  my  child." 

Lectures  on  the  History  of  the  Jewish  Church.    By  Arthur 
Penrhyn  Stanley.     1864. 

' '  To  the  dear  memory  of  Her,  by  whose  firm  faith,  calm 
wisdom,  and  tender  sympathy,  these  and  all  other  labours 


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have  for  years  been  sustained  and  cheered;  this  work, 
which  shared  her  latest  care,  is  now  dedicated  in  sacred 
and  everlasting  remembrance." 

Snow-Bound.     By  John  Greenleaf  Whittier.     1866. 

"  To  the  memory  of  the  household   it    describes,  this 
poem  is  dedicated  by  the  Author." 

"  The  inmates  of  the  family  at  the  Whittier  homestead  who  are 
referred  to  in  the  poem  were  my  father,  mother,  my  brother  and 
two  sisters,  and  my  uncle  and  aunt,  both  unmarried.  In  addition, 
there  was  the  district  schoolmaster  who  boarded  with  us.  The 
'  not  unfeared,  half -welcome  guest '  was  Harriet  Livermore,  daughter 
of  Judge  Livermore,  of  New  Hampshire,  a  young  woman  of  fine 
natural  ability,  enthusiastic,  eccentric,  with  slight  control  over 
her  violent  temper,  which  sometimes  made  her  religious  profession 
doubtful.  She  was  equally  ready  to  exhort  in  schoolhouse  prayer- 
meetings  and  dance  in  a  Washington  ball-room,  while  her  father 
was  a  member  of  Congress.  She  early  embraced  the  doctrine  of 
the  Second  Advent,  and  felt  it  her  duty  to  proclaim  the  Lord's 
speedy  coming.  With  this  message  she  crossed  the  Atlantic  and 
spent  the  greater  part  of  a  long  life  in  travelling  over  Europe  and 
Asia.  She  lived  some  time  with  Lady  Hester  Stanhope,  a  woman 
as  fantastic  and  mentally  strained  as  herself,  on  the  slope  of  Mt. 
Lebanon,  but  finally  quarrelled  with  her  in  regard  to  two  white 
horses  with  red  marks  on  their  backs  which  suggested  the  idea  of 
saddles,  on  which  her  titled  hostess  expected  to  ride  into  Jerusalem 
with  the  Lord.  A  friend  of  mine  found  her,  when  quite  an  old 
woman,  wandering  in  Syria  with  a  tribe  of  Arabs,  who,  with  the 
Oriental  notion  that  madness  is  inspiration,  accepted  her  as  their 
prophetess  and  leader.  At  the  time  referred  to  in  Snow-Bound  she 
was  boarding  at  the  Rocks  Village  about  two  miles  from  us." 
(Whittier's  note.) 

The  Innocents  Abroad.    By  Mark  Twain.     1869. 

"To  my  most  patient  reader  and  most  charitable  critic, 
my  aged  mother,  this  volimie  is  affectionately  inscribed." 

A   Memoir  of   the   Reverend    Sidney    Smith.      By   His 
Daughter  Lady  Holland.     1869. 

"This  memoir  of  my  father,  the  preparation  for  which  was 


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the  constant  occupation  of  my  mother's  life,  and  the  com- 
pletion of  which  was  the  most  earnest  object  of  her  desire, 
both  in  her  life  and  at  her  death,  which  nothing  but  her 
earnest  desire  could  have  given  me  courage  to  attempt,  I 
now  dedicate  to  her  memory,  believing  it  to  be  the  most 
grateful  tribute  I  can  offer  on  her  grave." 

Among  my  Books.     By  James  Russell  Lowell.     1870. 

"to  f.  d.  l." 

'^"Love  comes  and  goes  with  music  in  his  feet, 
And  tunes  young  pulses  to  his  roundelays; 
Love  brings  thee  this :  will  it  persuade  thee,  sweet, 
That  he  turns  proser  when  he  comes  and  stays?" 

Memorials  of  Captain  Hedley  Vicars,  97th  Regiment.     By 
Catherine  Marsh.     1870. 

"  This  record  of  the  faith  of  a  son  is  affectionately  inscribed 
to  her  whom  God  graciously  chose  to  sow  in  his  young  heart 
its  first  imperishable  seed." 

Music  and  Morals.    By  the  Reverend  Hugh  R.  Haweis. 
1871. 

"To  my  wife,  whose  pen  has  saved  me  so  much  labor,  and 
to  whose  pencil  I  owe  all  the  illustrations,  fac-similes,  and 
diagrams  in  this  volimie,  I  dedicate  these  studies  of  my 
leisure  hours." 

Doings  of  the  Bodley  Family  in  the  Town  and  Country. 
By  Horace  Scudder.     1875. 

"to  SYLVIA  AND  ETHEL" 

"They  came  by  night  at  the  turn  of  the  year; 

One  was  dark  and  one  was  fair; 

It  would  have  been  lonely  for  one  to  be  here, 

So  both  came  down  the  heavenly  stair." 


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Charles  Kingsley:  His  Letters  and  Memories  of  His  Life. 
Edited  by  His  Wife.     1876. 

"  Dedicated  to  the  beloved  memory  of  a  Righteous  Man: 
"Who  loved  God  and  Truth  above  all  things.  A  man  of 
untarnished  honor — loyal  and  chivalrous — gentle  and  strong 
— modest  and  humble — tender  and  true — pitiful  to  the 
weak — yearning  after  the  erring,  stern  to  all  forms  of  wrong 
and  oppression,  yet  most  stem  toward  himself — who  being 
angry,  yet  sinned  not — whose  highest  virtues  were  known 
only  to  his  wife,  his  children,  his  servants,  and  the  poor, 
who  Hved  in  the  presence  of  God  here,  and  passing  through 
the  grave  and  gate  of  death  now  liveth  unto  God 
forevermore." 

Memoir  of  Norman  Macleod.     By  Donald  Macleod.     1876. 

"Dedicated  to  his  mother,  now  in  her  ninety-first  year, 
in  affectionate  remembrance  of  all  that  her  children  and 
her  children's  children  owe  to  her  influence." 

The  Amateur  Emigrant.    By  Robert  L.  Stevenson.     1879. 

"To  Robert  Alan  Mowbray  Stevenson. 

"Our  friendship  was  not  only  founded  before  we  were 
born  by  a  community  of  blood,  but  is  in  itself  as  old  as  my 
life.  It  began  with  our  early  ages,  and,  like  a  history, 
has  been  continued  to  the  present  time.  Although  we 
may  not  be  old  in  the  world,  we  are  old  to  each  other, 
having  so  long  been  intimates.  We  are  now  widely  sepa- 
rated, a  great  sea  and  continent  intervening;  but  memory, 
like  care,  mounts  into  iron  ships  and  rides  post  behind  the 
horseman.  Neither  time  nor  space  nor  enmity  can  conquer 
old  affection;  and  as  I  dedicate  these  sketches,  it  is  not  to 
you  only,  but  to  all  in  the  old  country,  that  I  send  the 
greeting  of  my  heart. 

"R.L.  S." 


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Poems.     By  Father  Abram  J.  Ryan.     1880. 

"These  simple  rhymes  are  laid  as  a  garland  of  love  at 
the  feet  of  his  Mother  by  her  child,  the  author." 

Ben  Hur.     By  Lew  Wallace.     1880. 

"To  the  wife  of  my  youth,  who  still  abides  with  me." 

Idyls  of  Norway  and  Other  Poems.     By  Hjalmar  Hjorth 
Boyesen.     1882. 

"to  l.  k.  b. 

"I  fain  wotdd  praise  thee  with  surpassing  praise, 
To  whom  my  soul  its  first  allegiance  gave; 
For  thou  art  fair  as  thou  art  wise  and  brave, 
And  like  the  Lily  that  with  sweet  amaze, 
Rocks  on  its  lake  and  spreads  its  golden  rays 
Serenely  to  the  sun  and  knows  not  why, 
Thou  spreadst  the  tranquil  splendor  of  thine  eye 
Upon  my  heart  and  fillst  the  happy  days, 
Brimmed  with  the  fragrance  and  the  light  of  thee. 
Mute  was  my  life  and  chill  ere  thee  it  found; 
Like  dumbly  heaving  waves  it  rolled  along 
In  voiceless  wrestling  on  a  barren  sea. 
Until  it  broke,  with  sudden  rush  of  sound, 
Upon  thy  sunny  shore  in  light  and  song." 

The  Rose.     By  H.  B.  Ellwanger.     1882. 

"I  dedicate  this  book  to  my  father,  George  Ellwanger, 
who  has  done  so  much  to  improve  horticultural  taste,  and 
inculcate  a  love  for  the  beautiful.  He  has  ever  taught, 
and  proved  by  his  life,  that  much  of  the  purest  happiness 
is  foimd  in  active  employment  in  the  garden." 

Luther*s  Leben.     By  Julius  Kostlin.     Leipzig,  1882. 

"To  my  dear  wife  Pauline,  with  the  words  of  Luther: 
'God's  best  gift  on  earth  is  to  have  a  peaceable,  good- 
tempered.  God-fearing,  and  home-loving  wife.' 


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Practical  Thoughts  of  a  Mother.  Prose  translated  by 
M.  E.  B.  Poetry  by  C.  M.  V,  W.,  from  the  German  of 
E.  Michael.     1882. 

"dedication  to  *my  mother' 

"All  that  within  my  heart  lies  hidden, 
All  that  has  charmed  me  or  distressed, 
Upon  these  pages  I  have  bidden 

Before  thine  eyes  to  stand  confessed. 

"They  hold  my  thoughts,  my  each  emotion, 
My  deeds,  my  joys,  my  hopes,  my  fears, 
My  hours  of  darkness  of  devotion. 
And  well  bedewed  they  are  with  tears. 

"I  lay  them  in  thy  hands,  my  Mother, 

My  'thoughts,  my  'songs'  of  me  a  part, 

As  if  in  them  myself,  my  Mother, 
I  laid  upon  thy  faithful  heart. 

"And  if  perchance  thy  cheek  caressing, 
A  breath  well  known  the  pages  waft, 
Bethink  thee  't  is  my  kiss  and  bless  ng 
They  've  kept  for  thee  with  tender  craft." 

But  Yet  a  Woman.     By  Arthur  Sherburne  Hardy.     1883. 

"The  dedication  of  this  book  to  my  wife  is  but  the 
acknowledgment  of  the  debt  of  both  it  and  its  author." 

The  Secret  of  Death.     By  Edwin  Arnold.     1884. 

"to  MY  DAUGHTER 

"Because  I  know  my  verse  shall  henceforth  live 
On  lips  to  be,  on  hearts  as  yet  unbeating; 
Because  the  East  and  West  will  some  day  give — 

When  Faith  and  Doubt  are  friends,  at  some  far  meeting — 


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Late  praise  to  him  that  dreamed  it, — therefore  here, 

As  one  that  carves  upon  a  growing  willow 
The  word  it  is  to  keep  for  many  a  year ; 

As  one  that  paints,  before  she  breasts  the  billow, 
A  dear  name  on  his  vessel's  prow;  as  one 

That,  finishing  a  fane,  makes  dedication 
With  golden  letters  on  the  pohshed  stone, 

Crowning  his  toil  by  loving  celebration, — 
Here,  while  these  last,  our  love  I  celebrate, 
For  thy  sake  and  thy  mother's, — writing  'Kate.'" 

Flower  and  Thorn.     By  Thomas  Bailey  Aldrich.     1885. 

"to  l.  a." 

"At  Shiraz,  in  a  sultan's  garden,  stood 
A  tree  whereon  a  curious  apple  grew. 
One  side  Hke  honey,  and  one  side  Uke  rue. 

"Thus  sweet  and  bitter  is  the  1  fe  of  man, 
The  sultan  said,  for  thus  together  grow 
Bitter  and  sweet,  but  wherefore  none  may  know. 

"Herewith  together  you  have  flower  and  thorn. 
Both  rose  and  brier  for  thus  together  grow 
Bitter  and  sweet,  but  wherefore  none  may  know. 

"Take  them  and  keep  them, 
Silvery  thorn  and  flower. 
Plucked  just  at  random 
In  the  rosy  weather — 
Snowdrops  and  pansies, 
Sprigs  of  wayside  heather, 
And  five-leaved  wild-rose 
Dead  within  an  hour. 


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"Take  them  and  keep  them: 
Who  can  tell?  some  day,  dsar, 
(Though  they  be  withered, 
Flower  and  thorn  and  blossom,) 
Held  for  an  instant 
Up  against  thy  bosom. 
They  might  make  December 
Seem  to  thee  like  May,  dear!" 

Boots  and  Saddles,  or  Life  in  Dakota  with  General  Custer. 

By  Mrs.  Elizabeth  B.  Custer.     1885. 

"  Dedicated  to  my  husband,  the  echo  of  whose  voice  has 
been  my  inspiration." 

Mrs.  Custer's  Following  the  Guidon  is  dedicated  "To  one  who  has 
followed  the  Guidon  into  that  Realm  where 
"  'The  war-drum  throbs  no  longer  and  the  battle-flags  are  furled.' 

The  Idea  of  God.     By  John  Fiske.     1885. 

"To  my  Wife, — in  remembrance  of  the  sweet  Sunday 
morning  under  the  apple  tree  on  the  hillside,  when  we  two 
sat  looking  down  into  fairy  woodland  paths,  and  talked 
of  the  things  since  written  in  this  little  book,  I  now  dedicate 
it. 

"  'Silver  and  gold  have  I  none,  but  such  as  I  have  give  I 
thee.'  " 

The  Story  of  Helen.     By  C.  M.  Van  Wagenen.     1885. 
"to  my  mother  and  father" 

"Twin  hearts! 
From  whom  this  heart  derived 
Its  fashion  and  its  flame, 
Long  decades  in  the  Silent  Land 
Unwitting  praise  or  blame, 


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All  labour  done 

Life's  victory  won, 
Yet  may  ye  wit,  within  the  Light  Above, 
This  humble  tribute  of  a  daughter's  love." 

Life  of  John  Pickering.     By  Mary  Orne  Pickering.     1887. 

"To  the  eldest  grand- daughter  of  my  father  and  mother, 
whose  childhood  was  blessed  with  their  loving  care;  to  the 
memory  of  her  departed  sister,  and  to  the  younger  grand- 
children, who  never  had  the  happiness  of  knowing  their 
grandparents  and  sharing  their  affection,  this  imperfect 
memorial  of  my  father  and  mother  is  tenderly  dedicated 
by  their  aunt. 

"Mary  Orne  Pickering." 

Madrigals  and  Catches.    By  Frank  D.  Sherman.     1887. 

"to  my  father" 

"Madrigals  and  Catches  caught 
In  the  cage  of  Happy  Thought 
Are  these  amatory  rhymes; 
Reveries  of  olden  times 
When  my  heart  was  ever  bent 
After  some  new  sentiment, 
Veering  like  a  ship  at  sea 
With  the  tides  of  melody. 
Trembling  like  the  stars  above 
With  each  last-discovered  love. 
These  are  songs  for  gladsome  youth, 
Half  in  jest  and  half  in  truth; 
Lyrics  light  as  gales  that  toss 
Leaves  the  orchard  floor  across, — 
Lyrics  gay  as  carols  sung 
Blossom-laden  vines  among; 
All  pitched  in  a  major  key — 
Catch  and  madrigal  and  glee: 


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Songs  whose  inspiration  came 
In  the  constant  leaping  flame 
Of  my  love  for  Her  whose  eyes 
Look  on  us  from  Paradise, 
And  my  love  for  you  whose  heart 
Gave  Love's  mariner  the  chart 
That  he  might  find  only  joy — 
Only  joy  for  me,  your  boy." 

Musical  Instruments  and  their  Homes.    By  Mary  E.  Brown 
and  Wm.  Adams  Brown.     1888. 

"To  the  One: 

"Who  has  not  only  given  the  true  keynote  to  our  home, 
but  whose  firm  yet  gentle  touch  has  resolved  all  its  tran- 
sient discords  into  harmony,  this  book  is  affectionately 
dedicated  by  his  wife  and  eldest  son." 

The  Unity  of  the  Life  of  the  Spirit.     By  Rudolf  Eucken. 
1888. 

"To  the  Memory  of  My  Mother." 

II  regno  di  Vittorio  Emanuele  11.     By  Vittorio  Bersezio. 
1889. 

"to   LAURA   bersezio" 

"To  thee,  dearest  companion  of  my  life,  wise  mother  of 
my  children,  whose  soul  is  attuned  to  my  soul,  to  thee  my 
noblest  Love,  to  thee  who  first  stimulated  and  encouraged 
me  in  the  work  which  has  now  for  so  many  years  engaged 
my  thoughts,  and  which  but  for  thy  sympathy  might  never 
have  been  written. 

"To  thee  I  dedicate  this  book,  a  conscientious  study, 
though  so  inadequate  to  the  great  subject  of  which  it 
treats,  but  which  has  yet  been  to  me  the  most  delightful 
wish  of  my  mature  years." 

(From  the  Italian.) 


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The  Permanent  Elements  of  Religion.    By  Bishop  Boyd 
Carpenter.     1889. 

"To  my  Mother  I  owe  my  earliest  thoughts  of  religion: 
to  my  Mother  I  dedicate  my  latest." 

A  Little  Book  of  Western  Verse.    By  Eugene  Field.     1889. 

"to  MARY  FIELD  FRENCH" 


"A  d3ring  Mother  gave  to  you 
Her  child  a  many  years  ago; 
How  in  your  gracious  love  he  grew, 

You  know,  dear,  patient  heart,  you  know. 


"The  Mother's  child  you  fostered  then 
Salutes  you  now  and  bids  you  take 
These  little  children  of  his  pen. 

And  love  them  for  the  author's  sake. 


"To  you  I  dedicate  this  book, 

And,  as  you  read  it  line  by  line, 
Upon  its  faults  as  kindly  look 

As  you  have  always  looked  on  mine. 


"Tardy  the  offering  is  and  weak, — 
Yet  were  I  happy  if  I  knew 
These  children  had  the  power  to  speak 
My  love  and  gratitude  to  you. — 

"E.  F.' 


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Between  Times.     By  Walter  Learned.     1889. 

"to  a.  f.  l." 

"The  child  who  wanders  by  the  wayside  sees 
Buds  in  the  fields  and  blossoms  in  the  trees, 
And  with  unskillful  hand  essays  to  bring 
Back  to  his  home  these  tokens  of  the  spring; 
Plucks  here  a  stemless  bud,  a  floweret  torn, 
A  withered  calyx  of  its  petals  shorn; 
Crushed  by  the  hand  that  strove  to  hold  them  fast, 
He  brings  a  battered  nosegay  home  at  last. 
A  waste  of  flowers !     And  this,  perhaps  you  think, 
A  waste  of  time,  a  waste  of  pen  and  ink, 
But  you  'd  have  kept  the  flowers.     I  pray  you,  look 
Between  the  halting  lines  that  fill  this  book. 
To  you  these  too  imperfect  rhymes  I  bring. 
Since  but  for  you,  I  'd  not  have  cared  to  sing." 

Memorials  and  Letters  of  the  Reverend  John  R.  Adams, 
D.D.     By  Emily  Adams  Bancroft.     1890. 

"To  his  children  and  grandchildren:  These  letters  of  a 
beloved  brother  have  been  prepared  to  perpetuate  in  their 
hearts  the  remembrance  of  his  useful  life  and  heroic  deeds. 

"Emily  Adams  Bancroft. 

"Jacksonville,  111.,  Jan.  2d,  1890." 

"  'He  gave  his  body  to  that  pleasant  country's  earth, 
And  his  pure  soul  unto  his  Captain  Christ, 
Under  whose  colors  he  had  fought  so  long.'" 

The  Reverend  John  R.  Adams  was  chaplain  of  the  Fifth  Maine 
and  the  One  Hundred  and  Twenty-first  New  York  regiments 
during  the  War  of  the  RebelHon,  serving  from  the  beginning  to 
its  close. 

Betty  Alden,  the  First-Born  Daughter  of  the  Pilgrims. 
By  Jane  G.  Austin.     1891. 

"To  my  dear  cousins,  Marston  and  Mary  Watson,  and 


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their  Hillside,  where  Betty  Alden  has  been  so  pleasantly- 
cradled  during  the  past  year,  this  story  of  her  life  and  times 
is  aflEectionately  dedicated." 

Pitt.     By  Lord  Rosebery.     1891. 

"This  little  book  has  been  written  under  many  disad- 
vantages, but  with  a  sincere  desire  to  ascertain  the  truth. 
My  chief  happiness  in  completing  it  would  have  been  to 
give  it  to  my  wife;  it  can  now  only  be  inscribed  to  her 
memory." 

Stirring  the  Eagle's  Nest.     By  Theodore  Ledyard  Cuyler, 
D.D.     1892. 

"To  A.  E.G. 

"The  beloved  wife  who  has  filled  my  home  with  sunshine 
for  nearly  forty  years,  this  volume  is  gratefully  inscribed." 

English  Cathedrals.     By  Mrs.  Schuyler  Van  Rensselaer. 
1892. 

"  To  the  memory  of  my  father,  George  Griswold,  in  whose 
company  I  first  saw  the  buildings  of  the  old  world." 

The  Love  Affairs  of  an  Old  Maid.     By  Lilian  Bell.     1893. 

"Some  ships  reach  happy  ports  that  are  not  stirred." 

DEDICATION 

"This  book  is  dedicated  very  fondly  to  my  beloved 
family,  who,  in  their  anxiety  to  render  me  material  assist- 
ance, have  offered  me  such  diverse  opinions  as  to  its  merits 
that  their  criticisms  radiate  from  me  in  as  many  directions 
as  there  are  spokes  to  a  wheel.  This  leaves  the  distraught 
hub  with  no  opinion  of  its  own,  and  with  flaring,  ragged 
edges.  Nevertheless,  thus  must  it  appear  before  the  public, 
whose  opinion  will  be  the  tire  which  shall  enable  my  wheel 
to  revolve.  If  it  be  favorable,  one  may  look  for  smooth 
riding;  if  unfavorable,  one  must  expect  jolts." 


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Twilight  Dreams.     By  Bishop  Boyd  Carpenter.     1893. 

"To  thee,  most  beloved  wife,  watchful  in  difficulties, 
constant  in  adversities,  loving  in  all  things,  these  dreams 
are  offered,  inscribed,  and  dedicated." 

(From  the  Latin.) 

My  Life  and  Times.     By  Cjrrus  Hamlin.     1893. 

"To  my  children  and  children's  children." 

How  to  Grow  Cut  Flowers.     By  Myron  A.  Hunt.     1893. 

'  To  her  who  has  walked  by  my  side  for  nearly  a  quarter 
of  a  century,  has  tenderly  cared  for  me  in  sickness,  cheered 
me  in  days  of  adversity,  and  earned  her  full  share  of  the 
rest  that  has  come  with  the  eventide  of  life, — to  my  loved 
wife  is  this  volume  dedicated." 

Gjrpsying  beyond  the  Sea.     By  William   Bement  Lent. 
1893- 

"To  A.  L. 

"She  with  me,  and  I  with  her,  outward  bound." 

The  Prince  of  India.     By  Lew  Wallace.     1893. 

"To  my  father,  David  Wallace.  He  loved  literature 
for  the  pleasure  it  brought  him,  and  could  I  have  had  his 
counsel  while  composing  this  work,  the  critics  would  not 
be  so  terrible  to  me  now  that  it  is  about  going  to  press. 

"The  Author. 
"  Crawfordsville,  Ind. 
"May  20,  1893." 

Love  Songs  of  Childhood.     By  Eugene  Field.     1894. 

"To  Mrs.  Bell  Angier. 

"Dearest  Aunt: 

"Many  years  ago  you  used  to  rock  me  to  sleep  cradling 
me  in  your  arms  and  singing  me  pretty  songs.  Surely  you 
have  not  forgotten  that  time,  and  I  recall  it  with  tender- 


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ness.  You  were  very  beautiful  then.  But  you  are  more 
beautiful  now,  for  in  the  years  that  have  come  and  gone 
since  then,  the  joys  and  sorrows  of  maternity  have  im- 
pressed their  saintly  grace  upon  the  dear  face  I  used  to  kiss 
and  made  yoiu*  gentle  heart  gentler  still.  Beloved  lady, 
in  memory  of  many  years  to  be  recalled  only  in  thought, 
and  in  token  of  my  gratitude  and  affection,  I  bring  you 
these  little  love  songs  and  reverently  I  lay  them  at  yoiir 
feet." 

Alfreda  Holme.    By  Elizabeth  Boyd  Bayly.     1895. 

"To  those  dear  parents  whose  earnest  yet  cheerful 
thoughts  on  human  life  and  love  I  have  tried  to  illustrate, 
and  whose  pleasure  in  my  work  has  been  its  highest 
stimulus  and  reward,  I  dedicate  the  story  of  Alfreda." 

A  Child's  Garden  of  Verses.    By  Robert  Louis  Stevenson. 
1895. 

"to  ALISON   CUNNINGHAM — FROM   HER  BOY" 

"For  the  long  nights  you  lay  awake, 
And  watched  for  my  unworthy  sake, 
For  your  most  comfortable  hand 
That  led  me  through  the  uneven  land: 
For  all  the  story  books  you  read: 
And  all  the  pains  you  comforted: 
For  all  you  pitied,  all  you  bore. 
In  sad  and  happy  days  of  yore, 
My  second  Mother,  my  first  Wife, 
The  angel  of  my  infant  life, — 
From  the  sick  child  now  well  and  old. 
Take,  nurse,  the  little  book  you  hold! 
And  grant  it.  Heaven,  that  all  who  read 
May  find  as  dear  a  nurse  at  need. 


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And  every  child  who  lists  my  rhyme, 
In  the  bright  fireside  nursery  clime, 
May  hear  it  in  as  kind  a  voice, 
As  made  my  childish  days  rejoice!" 

This  nurse  took  charge  of  Stevenson  when  he  was  eighteen 
months  old,  and  was  devotedly  attached  to  him  all  her  life.  Un- 
wearied in  attention  to  his  bodily  needs,  "to  his  spiritual  welfare 
she  gave,  if  possible,  even  greater  care.  ...  In  matters  of  conduct 
Cummie  was  for  no  half  measures.  Cards  were  the  Devil's  books. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Stevenson  played  whist,  decorous  family  whist  .  .  . 
and  Louis  could  remember  praying  fervently  with  his  nurse  that 
it  might  not  be  visited  on  them  to  their  perdition."  (Graham 
Balfour's  Life,  I.,  41  f.) 

Personal  Recollections  of  Joan  of  Arc.    By  Mark  Twain, 
1896. 

"1870  1895. 

"To  my  wife,  Olivia  Langdon  Clemens,  this  book  is 
tendered  on  our  wedding  anniversary,  in  grateful  recogni- 
tion of  her  twenty-five  years  of  valued  service  as  my 
literary  adviser  and  editor." 

Beggars  All.     By  Lily  Dougall.     1896. 

"To  J.  E.  D.,  whose  wisdom  has  taught  many  that  the 
tree  of  knowledge  is  not  the  tree  of  life." 

A  Book  about  Roses.     By  S.  Reynolds  Hole.     1896. 

"I  dedicate  my  book  to  my  wife  because — 

'"There  's  a  rose  looking  in  at  the  window, 
In  every  condition  of  life — 
In  days  of  content  and  enjoyment. 
In  hours  with  bitterness  rife. 

"  'Where'er  there  's  the  smile  of  a  true  wife, 
As  bright  as  a  beam  from  above, 
*T  is  the  rose  looking  in  at  the  window, 
And  filling  the  dwelling  with  love.'  " 


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Queen  Moo  and  the  Egyptian  Sphinx.     By  Augustus  Le 
Plongeon,  M.D.     1896. 

"To  my  wife,  Alice  D.  Le  Plongeon,  my  constant  com- 
panion during  my  explorations  of  the  mined  cities  of  the 
Mayas,  who,  in  order  to  obtain  a  glimpse  of  the  history 
of  their  builders,  has  exposed  herself  to  many  dangers, 
suffered  privations,  sickness,  hardship;  my  faithful  and 
indefatigable  collaborator  at  home, — this  work  is  affec- 
tionately and  respectfully  dedicated." 

Books  and  their  Makers  During  the  Middle  Ages.      By 
George  Haven  Putnam.     1896. 

"To  the  memory  of  my  wife,  who  served  me  for  years 
both  as  eyesight  and  as  writing-arm  and  by  whose  hand  the 
following  pages  were  in  large  part  transcribed,  this  work 
is  dedicated." 

Eliza  Pinckney.     By  Harriott  Horry  Ravenel.     1896. 

"To  the  memory  of  my  father's  sister.  Miss  Eliza  Lucas 
Rutledge,  by  whose  courage  and  piety  these  letters  were 
saved  from  the  flames,  this  book  is  affectionately  dedicated." 

Weir  of  Hermiston.     By  Robert  L.  Stevenson.     1896. 

"to  my  wife" 

"I  saw  rain  falling  and  the  rainbow  drawn 
On  Lammermuir.     Hearkening  I  heard  again 
In  my  precipitous  city  beaten  bells 
Winnow  the  keen  sea  wind.     And  here  afar, 
Intent  on  my  own  race  and  place,  I  wrote. 

"Take  thou  the  writing:  thine  it  is.     For  who 
Burnished  the  sword,  blew  on  the  drowsy  coal, 
Held  still  the  target  higher,  chary  of  praise 


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And  prodigal  of  counsel, — who  but  thou? 

So  now,  in  the  end,  if  this  the  least  be  good, 

If  any  deed  be  done,  if  any  fire 

Burn  in  the  imperfect  page,  the  praise  be  thine." 

Audubon  and  his  Journals.     By  Maria  R.  Audubon.     1897. 

"In  loving  memory  of  my  father,  John  Woodhouse 
Audubon,  and  of  his  love  and  admiration  for  his  father, 
John  James  Audubon,  this  book  is  written." 

On  the  Threshold  of  Central  Africa.     By  Francois  Coillard. 
Translated  by  C.  W.  Mackintosh.     1897. 

"To  the  beloved  and  blessed  memory  of  her  who  for 
thirty  years  shared  and  adorned  my  life  and  missionary 
activity,  joyfully  faced  the  wanderings,  hardships,  and 
dangers  of  pioneer  work;  who  by  her  sufferings  and  death 
consecrated  the  Barotsi  Mission,  and  now  sleeps  at  Sefula. 

" 'She  hath  done  what  she  could. '  " 

General  Washington.     By  General  Bradley  Tyler  Johnson. 
1897. 

"I  dedicate  this  Biography  to  my  Grandson,  Bradley 
Tyler  Johnson,  Jr.,  as  a  representative  of  those  endless 
generations  who  will  love  God  and  Duty,  Honor  and 
Liberty,  Country  and  Right,  and  be  prompt  to  stake  life 
and  fortune  for  them,  perpetuating  and  transmitting,  to 
the  remotest  time,  that  Americanism,  of  which  Washington 
was  the  greatest  exemplar  and  illustration. 

"B.  T.  J." 

American  Lands  and  Letters.     By  Donald  G.  Mitchell. 
1897. 

"This  volume  is  affectionately  inscribed  to  those  daugh- 
ters of  Edgewood  who  have  helped  the  author  in  so  many 
searching  and  housewifely  ways,  and  who  have  encouraged 


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him  by  kindly  insisting — over  and  over — that  this  Httle 
book  was  a  great  deal  better  than  it  really  is.  God  bless 
them." 

Farthest  North.     By  Dr.  Fridtjof  Nansen.     1897. 

"To  her  who  christened  the  ship  and  had  the  courage  to 
remain  behind. " 

The  Instinct  of  Stepfatherhood.     By  Lilian  Bell.     1898. 

'To  My  Lovely  Mother: 

"Whose  descent  not  only  from  the  Pilgrim  Fathers,  but 
from  Plymouth  Rock,  enables  her  to  withstand  my  frantic 
appeal  when  she  is  minded  too  ruthlessly  to  clip  the  wings 
of  the  fledglings  of  my  heart  and  brain.  Nevertheless, 
to  her  extraordinary  critical  faculty  do  I  owe  much  of  the 
gentle  criticism  of  the  public,  and  to  her  unfailing  tender- 
ness and  patience  do  I  hereby  publicly  bear  witness." 

Charles  Sumner.     By  Anna  Laurens  Dawes.     1898. 

"To  my  mother,  in  token  of  a  debt  I  cannot  pay,  for 
inspiration,  encouragement,  and  the  wisest  criticism." 

The  Kentuckians.     By  John  Fox,  Jr.     1898. 

"To  my  Father  and  my  Father's  Kentuckians." 

Poems.     By  William  Ernest  Henley.     1898. 

"to  my  wife" 

"Take,  dear,  my  little  sheaf  of  songs, 
For,  old  or  new, 
All  that  is  good  in  them  belongs 
Only  to  you; 

"And,  singing  as  when  all  was  young 
They  will  recall 
Those  others,  lived  but  left  unsung, — 
The  best  of  all." 


35^  Dedications 


Cheerful  Yesterdays.     By  Thomas  Wentworth  Higginson. 
1898. 

"To  my  wife,  Mary  Thacher  Higginson, 
"Whose  sunny  influence  adds  appropriateness  to  the  Title, 
adopted  at  her  suggestion,  of  this  book  of  reminiscences. 
"Cambridge,  Mass.,  Feb.  12,  1898." 

With  Nature  and  a  Camera.     By  Richard  Kearton.     1898. 

"To  the  memory  of  our  beloved  father  and  mother,  who 
now  lie  sleeping  where  the  rock  thrush  pipes  his  lonesome 
note  and  the  moorcock  becks  at  dawn  of  day." 

Little  Rivers.     By  Henry  Van  Dyke.     1898. 

"To  one  who  wanders  by  my  side 
As  cheerfully  as  waters  glide. 
Whose  eyes  are  brown  as  woodland  streams, 
And  very  fair  and  full  of  dreams; 
Whose  heart  is  like  a  mountain  spring. 
Whose  thoughts  like  merry  rivers  sing. 
To  her — My  little  daughter  Brooke, 
I  dedicate  this  little  book." 

The  Conspirators.    By  Robert  W.  Chambers.     1899. 

"  TO    ELSIE  " 


"You,  to  whom  I  tell  my  tale. 
Swinging  in  your  hammock  there, 
Where  the  shadows  wane  and  pale — 
Tell  me,  can  my  tale  compare 
With  the  romance  you  and  I, 
Weave  in  living  tapestry? 


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"All  the  world  shall  be  our  loom, 
Every  thought  a  shuttle  flying 
Threading,  weaving,  trimming,  tying, 
Twisting,  gilding,  staining,  dyeing 
Time  itself  with  youth  and  bloom. 


"You  for  whom  I  write  my  tales, 
Smiling  in  your  hammock  there, 
When  the  silken  thistle  sails 
Tiny  ships  in  tiny  gales 
Tempest  tossed  on  seas  of  air — 
There  's  a  tale  beyond  compare 
When  your  drooping  lids  disguise 
Magic  legends  in  your  eyes! 


"Every  hour  shall  add  a  page, 
In  our  romance  gaily  blending, 
Every  dawn  a  chapter  sending. 
Every  eye  a  chapter  ending, 
'Thou  and  I — from  Age  to  Age!' 


"  Swing' ng  in  your  hammock  there. 
Where  a  slanting  sunbeam  paints, 
Aureoles  around  your  hair 
Fair  as  on  your  sister  saints — 
Read  once  more  the  glowing  page: 
'Thou  and  I — from  Age  to  Age!* 

"R.  W.  C. 
'April   1899." 


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Concerning    Isabel    Carnaby.     By    Ellen    Thomeycroft 
Fowler.     1899. 

"To  Mine  Own  People:  meaning  those  within 
The  magic  ring  of  home — my  kith  and  kin, — 
And  those  with  whom  my  soul  delights  to  dwell, — 
Who  walk  with  me  as  friends,  and  wish  me  well; 
And  lastly  those — a  large  unnumbered  band. 
Unknown  to  me — who  read  and  understand." 

Salmon  Portland  Chase.     By  Albert  Bushnell  Hart.     1899. 

"To  Albert  Gaillard  Hart,  abolitionist,  underground- 
railroad  conductor,  liberty  man,  union  soldier, — a  son's 
gratitude." 

Leaves  of  all  Seasons.     By  Epher  Whitaker. 

"  TO  MY  WIFE 

"  As  billows  heave  when  tempests  move  the  sea, 
So  throbbed  my  heart  when  first  I  called  thee  mine. 
Thy  presence  thrilled  me  with  a  hope  divine, 
And  made  the  heavens  a  bridal  canopy; 
The  years  have  flown ;  that  hope  has  come  to  be 
Far  more  than  holy  faith  and  present  bliss, 
The  rapture  felt  when  trustful  lovers  kiss. 
That  hope  has  grown  to  life's  reality; 
Thou  art  my  Sun  whose  beams  refulgently 
Illume  my  day — More  beautiful  than  stars, 
That  deck  the  sky  when  night  her  gate  embars 
Thine  eyes  direct  my  path — There  dwell  in  thee 
The  virtues,  graces,  joys  all  full  and  free. 
Than  earth  more  wide  and  deeper  than  the  sea." 

Spirit  and  Life.     By  Ellin  J.  Knowles.     1899. 

"To  one  in  heaven: 

"Whose  companionship  in  the  Study  of  the  Word  has 
been  my  inspiration," 


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The  Open  Road.     By  E.  V.  Lucas.     1899. 

"to  b" 

"Alone,  the  country  life — how  sweet! 

But  wood  and  meadow,  heath  and  hill, 
The  dewy  morn,  the  noon-day  heat. 
The  nest  half  hid,  the  poppied  wheat, 

The  peaty  purling  rill. 
The  brake  fern's  odorous  retreat, 
The  hush  of  eve,  serene,  discreet, 
With  you  are  sweeter  still." 

Santa  Claus's  Partner.     By  Thomas  Nelson  Page.     1899. 

"To  my  father,  who  among  all  the  men  the  writer  knew 
in  his  youth  was  the  most  familiar  with  books;  and  who  of 
all  the  men  the  writer  has  ever  known  has  exemplified 
best  the  virtue  of  open-handedness,  this  little  book  is 
affectionately  inscribed  by  his  son  the  author." 

^  Memories  and  Portraits.     By  Robert  Louis   Stevenson. 
1899. 

"To  my  mother,  in  the  name  of  past  joy  and  present 
sorrow,  I  dedicate  these  memories  and  portraits." 

Holly  and  Pizen.     By  Ruth  McEnery  Stuart.     1899. 

"A  loving  tribute  in  her  old  age,  to  my  Mother,  whose 
unselfish  life,  whose  trust  in  God,  whose  stubborn  faith  in 
humanity,  and  whose  uncompromising  integrity,  have  ever 
been  my  wonder,  my  inspiration,  my  despair,  and  my 
standard." 

The  Story  of  John  Adams,  a  New  England  Schoolmaster. 
By  M.  E.  B.  and  H.  G.  B.     1900. 

"To  Aunt  Emily" 

"The  Merry  Child, 
The  devoted  daughter 


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The  trusted  fellow-worker 
And  the  strong  staff 
Of  her  father's  declining  years. 
"This  book  is  affectionately  dedicated." 

Fortune  and  Men's  Eyes.     By  Josephine  Preston  Peabody. 
1900. 

"To  my  Mother's  presence  and  my  Father's  memory." 

The  Golden  Book  of  Venice.     By  Mrs.  Lawrence  Turnbull. 
1900. 

"As  a  tribute  to  his  gift  of  vivid  historic  narration,  which 
was  the  delight  of  my  childhood,  I  inscribe  this  romance 
to  the  memory  of  my  dear  father." 

Fisherman's  Luck.     By  Henry  Van  Dyke.     1900. 

"To  my  Lady  Graygown: 

"Here  is  the  basket;  I  bring  it  home  to  you.  There  are 
no  great  fish  in  it.  But  perhaps  there  may  be  a  little  one 
here  and  there  to  your  taste.  And  there  are  a  few  shining 
pebbles  from  the  bed  of  the  brook,  and  a  few  ferns  from  the 
cool  green  woods,  and  a  few  wild  flowers  from  the  places 
that  you  remember.  I  would  fain  console  you,  if  I  could, 
for  the  hardship  of  having  married  an  angler:  a  man  who 
relapses  into  his  mania  with  the  return  of  every  spring,  and 
never  sees  a  little  river  without  wishing  to  fish  in  it.  But 
after  all,  we  have  had  good  times  together,  as  we  have 
followed  the  stream  of  life  towards  the  sea.  And  we  have 
passed  through  the  dark  days  without  losing  heart,  because 
we  were  comrades.  So,  let  this  book  tell  you  one  thing 
that  is  certain:  in  all  the  life  of  your  fisherman,  the  best 
piece  of  luck  is  just  you." 

Up    from    Slavery:    An    Autobiography.     By    Booker    T. 
Washington.     1901. 

"This  volume  is  dedicated  to  my  wife,  Mrs.  Margaret 


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James  Washington,  and  to  my  brother,  Mr.  John  Washing- 
ton, whose  patience,  fideHty,  and  hard  work  have  gone  far 
to  make  this  work  at  Tuskegee  successful." 

The  True  Story  of  Captain  John  Smith.  By  Katharine 
Pearson  Woods.     1901. 

"To  the  memory  of  my  grandfather,  the  Reverend  James 
Dabney  McCabe,  D.D.,  an  old  Virginia  gentleman,  this 
story  of  the  founder  of  Virginia  is  lovingly  dedicated." 

The  Essence  of  Christianity:  A  Study  in  the  History  of 
Definition.  By  William  Adams  Brown,  Ph.D.,  D.D. 
1902. 

"To  my  wife: 

"In  grateful  recognition  of  the  wise,  patient,  and  sym- 
pathetic counsel  to  which  it  owes  so  much,  this  little  volume, 
undertaken  at  her  suggestion  and  completed  with  her  help, 
is  affectionately  inscribed." 

Sundials  and  Roses  of  Yesterday.  By  Alice  Morse  Earle. 
1902. 

"To  my  Daughter: 

"Mary  Earle  Moore,  to  commemorate  her  first  summer 
with  her  own  garden  and  sundial.  May  the  motto  of  her 
dial  be  that  of  her  life : 

"  '  I  mark  only  Sunny  Hours. '  " 

Lovey  Mary.     By  Alice  Hegan  Rice.     1903. 

"To  Cale  Young  Rice,  who  taught  me  the  secret  of 
plucking  roses  from  the  Cabbage  Patch." 

A  History  of  the  American  People.  By  Woodrow  Wilson. 
1902. 

"To  E.  A.  W.,  in  loving  acknowledgment  of  gentle 
benefits  which  can  neither  be  measured  nor  repaid." 


364  Dedications 


The  First  of  Empires — Babylon  of  the  Bible.     By  William 
St.  Chad  Boscawen.     1903. 

"This  work  is  dedicated  to  the  loving  memory  of  my 
father,  William  Henry  Boscawen,  B.A.,  Vicar  of  Hanmer, 
Flintshire,  1 852-1 870,  and  Rector  of  Marchwiel,  Denbigh- 
shire, 1870-1883,  from  whom  I  first  learned  the  charm  of 
the  study  which  has  been  the  one  object  of  my  life. 

" '  Let  the  wise  and  understanding  ponder  on  them  together, 
Let  the  father  repeat  them  and  teach  them  to  his  son. ' 

The  Assumption  in  the  Catholic  Theology  of  To-day.     By 
Clino  Crosta.     1903. 

"To  my  mother,  a  humble  proof  of  the  filial  love  which 
she  first  inspired  in  me  for  the  divine  assumption  into 
Heaven  of  Mary  Immactdate." 

(From  the  Italian.) 

The  Thermodynamics  of  Heat-Engines.     By  Sidney   A. 
Reeve.     1903. 

"To  my  wife,  to  whose  devotion  and  aid  (although  she 
doesn't  know  entropy  from  carbonic  acid)  the  existence 
of  this  book  is  due,  it  is  dedicated." 

Weather  Influences.     By  Edwin  Grant  Dexter.     1904. 

"To  the  memory  of  my  father,  whose  susceptibility  to 
weather  influences  first  impressed  me  with  their  potency, 
this  volimie  is  affectionately  dedicated." 

The  New  Testament  in  the  Christian  Church.     By  Edward 
Caldwell  Moore.     1904. 

"  To  My  Wife:  without  whose  encouragement  the  studies 
which  have  issued  in  this  book  would  never  have  been  kept 
up." 


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The  True  Henry  Clay.     By  Joseph  M.  Rogers.     1904. 

■'To  my  father  and  my  moiher.  whose  sen-'ices  to  Ken- 
tucky in  the  cause  of  education  and  intellectual  freedom 
wovdd  have  delighted  Henn,-  Clay,  had  he  lived  to  witness 
them." 

A  Life  of  Walt  Whitman.     By  Henry  Bryan  Binns.     1905. 

■"To  my  mother  and  her  Mother,  the  Republic." 

Georgia  History  Stories.     By  J.  Harris  Chappell.     1905. 

"To  my  mother. — Mrs.  Loretto  Lamar  Chappell,  a 
native  and  life-long  Georgian,  now  in  her  eighty-seventh 
year,  this  little  book  about  the  State  and  the  people  she 
loves  so  well  is  affectionately  dedicated." 

Leo  Tolstoy:  His  Life  and  Work.     Compiled  by  Paul  Biru- 

kofif.     1906. 

"With  feelings  of  sincere  gratitude  I  dedicate  this  volume 
to  my  wife,  who  by  her  self-sacrificing  labours  secured  me 
the  necessar}-  leisure  for  preparing  this  book,  as  well  as  to 
all  those  unknown  workers  who  were  engaged  in  labour  of 
a  hea^-ier  nature  whilst  I  had  the  pri\-ilege  of  this  work." 

A  Little  Book  of  Family  Verse:     By  W.  A.  B.     Privately 

Printed.     1906. 

■'To  Brighthurst: 

"Where  many  of  these  little  songs  were  bom;  to  Bright- 
hurst's  inmates,  past  and  present,  who  were  at  their  christen- 
ing: and  to  Brighthurst's  Mistress,  to  whom  they  owe  their 
permanent  home,  this  little  volume  is  dedicated  in  lo\"ing 
memor}'." 

Father  and  Child.     By  M.  E.  B.     (n.  d.) 

"This  Httle  collection  of  Scripture  verses  illustrating 
the  relation  of  the  Heavenly  Father  to  his  Earthly  Child 
is  dedicated  to  those  who  suffer  and  should  be  strong. 


366  Dedications 


"To  the  memory  of  my  dear  parents  who  early  conferred 
upon  me  an  inestimable  blessing,  by  teaching  me  to  know 
and  love  the  Scripture." 

The  Weavers.     By  Gerhart  Hauptmann.     1906. 

"  I  dedicate  this  drama  to  my  father,  Robert  Hauptmann. 

"You,  dear  father,  know  what  feelings  lead  me  to  dedicate 
this  work  to  you,  and  I  am  not  called  upon  to  analyse  them 
here. 

"Your  stories  of  my  grandfather,  who  in  his  young  days 
sat  at  the  loom,  a  poor  weaver  like  those  here  depicted, 
contained  the  germ  of  my  drama.  Whether  it  possesses 
the  vigour  of  life  or  is  rotten  at  the  core,  it  is  the  best  'so 
poor  a  man  as  Hamlet  is '  can  offer. 

'*Your 

"Gerhart." 

The  Bishop  of  Cottontown.     By  John  Trotwood  Moore. 
1906. 

"In  memory  of  my  mother,  Emily  Billingslea  Moore, 
who  died  December  14th,  1903. 

"  'The  faith  of  this  book  being  hers.'  " 

Lincoln,  Master  of  Men.     By  Alonzo  Rothschild.     1906. 

"To  the  memory  of  my  father,  John  Rothschild,  one  of 
the  plain  people  who  beHeved  in  Lincoln,  this  book  is 
affectionately  dedicated." 

Lee  and  His  Cause.    By  John  R.  Deering,  D.D.     1907. 

"Dedication  to  my  three  Daughters  and  six  Sons  who 
have  been  faithfully  taught  the  Truth  of  History,  the 
Nature  of  our  Government,  and  the  Love  of  our  Country: 
in  whom  I  trust  to  transmit  these  precious  things  to  coming 
generations,  as  they  may  have  the  power,  for  their  own  sake 
and  for  the  honour  of  those,  who,  at  home,  in  Council  Cham- 
bers, Legislative  Halls,  Hospital  Wards,  Prison  Cells  and 


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on  hard  fought  fields  have  taught  and  toiled,  sorrowed  and 
suffered,  bled  and  died  to  maintain  and  establish  them." 

Autobiography  of  Oliver  Otis  Howard.     1907. 

"  Dedicated  to  my  wife  whose  abiding  influence  for  sixty 
years  has  supported  my  efforts  to  undertake  and  accomplish 
the  work  given  me  to  do.  Children  and  grandchildren  have 
already  risen  up  to  call  her  blessed ;  and  her  husband  honors 
her  affection  and  strength  of  character." 

'  The  Lady  of  the  Decoration.     By  Frances  Little.     1907. 
"To  all  good  sisters,  and  to  mine  in  particular." 

Jesus  Christ  and  the  Social  Question.     By  Francis  Green- 
wood Peabody.     1907. 

"Through  sunny  days  and  on  through  stormy  weather. 
Yet  ever  hand  in  hand,  beloved  wife, 
We  two  have  walked  our  quiet  way  together 
Along  the  dusty  road  of  common  life. 

"Bright  were  the  vistas  on  our  journey  seen, 
And  dark  the  valleys  of  the  shadow  lay, 
But  your  dear  love,  like  Israel's  God,  has  been 
My  light  in  darkness  and  my  shade  by  day. 

"I  cannot  give  you  what  a  scholar  ought, 
Learning  or  wit  or  insight  for  the  true; 
I  but  transcribe  what  you  have  daily  taught. 
The  spirit  of  the  Master  seen  in  you." 

Journeys  of  Observation.    By  T.  A.  Richard.     1907. 

"to  my  wife 

"  Thy  voice  is  as  the  meadow  lark's  that  thrills 
The  dawn  with  accents  rapturously  gay, 
And  fills  the  toiling  in  the  working  fields 
With  hopes  of  a  diviner  day. 


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/ 


To  look  on  thee  is  as  the  sight  of  land 

To  weary  mariners  compelled  to  roam, 
As  light  to  those  who  watch  for  dawn, 

Or  to  the  exile,  home. 
The  thought  of  thee  is  as  the  summer  air, 

That  melts  the  unrelenting  snows, 
The  soft  refrain  of  some  sweet  song. 

The  perfume  of  a  rose." 

On  the  Training  of  Parents.     By  Ernest  Hamlin  Abbott. 
1908. 

"No  man  has  the  right  to  dedicate  to  another  what  is 
not  his  own.  All  that  is  mine  in  this  little  book  is  its  infe- 
licities. These  I  dedicate  to  oblivion.  The  rest  belongs 
to  those  two  women  from  whom  I,  as  son  and  as  husband, 
have  learned  all  that  I  know  of  the  training  of  parents." 

Popular  Fallacies.     By  Alfred  S.  E.  Ackermann.     1908. 

"To  my  father,  who  early  taught  me  by  precept  and 
example  the  habits  of  a  student-life,  which  is  one  of  the 
happiest  it  is  possible  to  live." 

John  Keats.     By  Albert  Elmer  Hancock.     1908. 

"To  one  by  my  desk." 

India,  its  Life  and  Thought.     By  John  P.  Jones.     1908. 

' '  Dedicated  to  my  dear  children  who  have  bravely  and 
cheerfully  endured  the  separation  and  the  loss  of  home  for 
the  sake  of  India." 

Mater,  an  American  Study  in  Comedy.    By  Percy  Mackaye. 
1908. 

"To  the  author  of  The  Economy  of  Happiness,  this 
dafifodil  is  laid  in  its  margin  by  his  brother." 

The  Bride  of  the  Mistletoe.     By  James  Lane  Allen.     1909. 

"To  one  who  knows." 


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A  Hundred  Years  of  Merchant  Banking :  A  History  of 
Brown  Brothers  &  Company,  Brown  Shipley  &  Com- 
pany, and  the  Allied  Firms.  By  John  Crosby  Brown. 
1909. 

"to  MY  PARTNERS 

"That  a  study  of  the  traditions  of  the  past  and  of  the 
example  of  the  founders  may  stimulate  them  to  transmit 
to  their  descendants  and  successors  the  high  ideals  of  their 
predecessors  and  to  maintain  the  good  name  of  the  old 
firm  with  credit  unimpaired. 

"to  MY  SONS 

that  they  may  appreciate  the  rich  legacy  of  Christian 
character  and  high  commercial  integrity  which  is  their 
inheritance. 

"to  my  wife 

without  whose  suggestion  this  work  would  never  have 
been  begun  and  without  whose  encouragement  it  would 
never  have  been  finished." 

On  the  Branch.     By  Helene  Favre  de  Coulevain.     1909. 

"From  the  soul  of  the  daughter  to  the  soul  of  the  mother." 

The  Poetic  New  World.     By  Lucy  H.  Humphrey.     1909. 

"to  a.  r.  h.  and  h.  m.  h. 

"  'Nothing  so  sweete  is  as  our  countrie's  earth, 

And  joy  of  those  from  whom  we  claime  our  birth.' " 

Ridgway  of  Montana,     By  William  M.  Raine.     1909. 

"To  Jean,  and  that  kingdom 

"  'Where  you  and  I  through  this  world's  weather, 
Work  and  give  praise  and  thanks  together.'  " 


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Old  Friends.     By  William  Winter.     1909. 

"To  the  memory  of  my  earliest  friend,  my  loved  and 
honored  father,  Captain  Charies  Winter,  I  dedicate  these 
recollections. 

" '  He  knew  my  love,  and  wheresoe'er  it  be, 

His  spirit  knows.     There  is  no  need  of  vow, 
Of  fond  remembrance,  yet  there  is  for  me, 
A  kind  of  comfort  to  avouch  it  now. ' " 

A  Mind  that  Found  Itself.     By  CliflEord  W.  Beers.     1910. 

"Dedicated  to  the  memory  of  my  uncle,  Samuel  Edwin 
Merwin,  whose  timely  generosity  I  believe  saved  my  life, 
and  whose  death  has  forever  robbed  me  of  a  satisfying 
opportunity  to  prove  my  gratitude." 

Lays  of  the  Lake.    By  Emma  Smaller  Crater.     1910. 

"To  my  Sister: 

"You  have  often  asked  me  to  gather  into  a  little  book 
some  of  the  verses  that  have  come  to  me  from  time  to 
time,  many  of  them  written  at  your  suggestion.  I  have 
tried  to  do  it,  but  they  seem  for  the  most  part  so  simple, 
springing  up  as  they  have  done  along  the  pathway  of  every- 
day life, — just  the  common  wayside  flowers, — possibly  few 
besides  ourselves  may  care  to  look  among  the  leaves  for  our 
vagrant  blossoms.  However,  here  they  are  for  you,  dear, 
the  daisies,  the  sweet  briar,  the  heal-all  and  the  hearts- 
ease, the  ragweed  and  the  jewel  weed,  plucked  along  the 
way,  such  a  bunch  as  you  and  I  have  often  carried  home 
together. 

"Yours,  E. 

"  Lincoln  University,  Pa. 
"Sept.  30,  1910." 

Religion  and  Miracle.     By  George  A.  Gordon.     1910. 

"I  dedicate  this  book  to  the  inspiring  memory  of  my 
Father,  George  Gordon,  of  Insch,  Scotland,  born  and  bred 


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to  the  vocation  of  farmer:  a  brilliant  mind;  one  of  the 
bravest  of  men,  to  whom  the  order  of  Simmier  and  Winter, 
seed-time  and  harvest  was  a  token  of  the  inj&nite  good- 
will; who  toiled  in  the  fields  of  Time  in  the  sense  of  the 
Eternal." 

Uncle  William.     By  Jennette  Lee.     1910. 

"to  GERALD   STANLEY  LEE 

"Let  him  sing  to  me, 
Who  sees  the  watching  of  the  stars  above  the  day, 
Who  hears  the  singing  of  the  sunrise,  on  its  way 
Through  all  the  night, 
Who  outfaces  skies,  outstings  the  storms. 

"  Let  him  sing  to  me. 
Who  is  the  sky- voice,  the  thunderlover, 
Who  hears  above  the  winds  fast  flying  shrouds, 
The  drifted  darkness,  the  heavenly  strife. 
The  singing  on  the  sunny  sides  of  all  the  clouds, 
Of  his  own  life." 

A  Painter's  Progress.    By  Will  H.  Low.     1910. 

"To  Mary  Fairchild  Low: 

"  This  is  the  life  we  have  chosen;  well,  the  choice  was  mad, 
but  I  should  make  it  again." 

From  the  Thames  to  the  Seine.    By  Charles  Pears,     igio. 

"To  her  who  listened  to  the  rustling  wind,  watched  the 
bending  branches  round  our  home,  and  waited,  long  and 
wearily,  as  women  do." 

The  Gossamer  Thread.     By  Venita  Seibert.     191  o. 

"To  'Grosmamma,'  who  at  eighty- two  still  loves  to  tell 
stories." 


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The  Iron  Muse.     By  John  Curtis  Underwood.     1910. 

"To  Herself." 

Married  Life  of  the  Frederick  CarroUs.    By  Jesse  Lynch 
Williams.     1910. 

"Dedicated  to  my  mother,  an  old-fashioned  woman  who 
understands  the  new." 

The  Education  of  Women  in  China.     By  Margaret  E. 
Burton.     191 1. 

"To  my  Father  and  Mother,  in  loving  recognition  of 
gifts  too  great  for  thanks." 

The  Downfall  of  the  Gods.     By  Sir  Hugh  Clifford,  K.C.M.G. 
1911. 

"To  Betty, 

"This,  the  first  book  that  I  have  written,  is  inscribed. 
"'This  is  my  Lady's  praise: 
God,  after  many  days, 
Wrought  her  in  unknown  ways 

In  sunset  lands; 
This  was  my  Lady's  birth: 
God  gave  her  might  and  mirth, 
And  laid  the  whole  sweet  earth 
Between  her  hands. ' 

"Swinburne." 

The  Iron  Woman.     By  Margaret  Deland.     191 1. 

"To  my  patient,  ruthless,  inspiring  critic,  Lorin  Deland." 

Comfort  Found  in  Good  Old  Books.     By  George  Hamlin 
Fitch.     191 1. 

"To  the  memory  of  my  son  Harold,  my  best  critic,  my 
other  self,  whose  death  has  taken  the  light  out  of  my  life." 


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JEonian  Echoes.    By  Martha  A.  Kidder.     191 1. 

"to  MY  FATHER  AND  MOTHER 

"Father,  who  trained  my  youthful  mind, 
My  sternest  critic,  just  and  kind, 
My  book  I  offer  thee  to-day, 
The  tribute  of  my  love  alway! 

"Mother,  the  dearest  name  on  earth, 
Whose  care  hath  shielded  me  from  birth, 
No  pen  can  write  how  much  I  owe! 
No  love  so  great  my  heart  shall  know." 

The  House  of  Bondage.    By  Reginald  W.  Kaufifman.     ipii. 

"to    ANDREW    JOHN    KAUFFMAN  (184O-1899) 

"O  strong  soul,  by  what  shore 
Tarriest  thou  now?     For  that  force, 
Surely,  has  not  been  left  vain! 
Somewhere,  surely,  afar. 
In  the  sounding  labor-house  vast 
Of  being,  is  practised  that  strength, 
Zealous,  beneficent,  firm!" 

The  Musical  Amateur.    A  Book  on  the  Human  Side   of 
Music.     By  Robert  Haven  Schauffler.     191 1. 

"To  my  brother  Charles,  Fiddler,  Creative  Listener, 
Automusician, — in  gratitude  for  his  tireless  instruction  in 
the  art  of  the  musical  amateur  and  in  memory  of  rare 
days  and  nights  with  opus  fifty-nine." 


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The  Christian  Hope :  A  Study  in  the  Doctrine  of  Immortality. 
By  William  Adams  Brown,  Ph.D.,  D.D.     1912. 

"To  my  father:  John  Crosby  Brown." 

Mr.  Brown,  to  whom  this  book  is  dedicated,  died  in  June,  1909,  nearly 
three  years  before  the  book  appeared. 

The  Friendship  of  Nations.     By  Lucile  Gulliver.     191 2. 

"To  the  memory  of  a  noble  old-time  Educator,  my 
grandfather,  Daniel  Greenleaf  Beede." 

Woodrow  Wilson.     By  Hester  E.  Hosford.     1912. 

"Dedicated  to  the  memory  of  my  Stand- Pat  Ancestors 
whose  sincerity  I  revere  and  honor,  but  whose  poHtical 
teaching  I  am  unable  to  accept." 

The  Terrible  Meek.     By  Charles  Rann  Kennedy.     1912. 

"To  my  Mother. 

"'A  newer  courage — more  like  woman's.  Dealing  with 
life,  not  death.     It  changes  everything.'  " 

The  Green  C.     By  J.  A,  Meyer.     1912. 

"To  the  Authors  of  the  Author." 

Christianity  and  the  Social  Crisis.     By  Walter  Rauschen- 
busch.     191 2. 

"To  the  women  who  have  loved  me:  my  mother,  my 
sisters  Frida  and  Emma,  my  dear  wife  Pauline,  and  my 
little  daughters  Winifred  and  Elizabeth, — this  book  is 
lovingly  inscribed. 

"Thy  kingdom  come!     Thy  will  be  done  on  earth." 

The   Goodly  Fellowship.    By  Rachel   Capen   Schauflier. 
1912. 

"to  my  kin 

"God  gave  me  seven  brothers,  six  by  blood 
And  one  by  law:  and  two  of  these  He  sent 
To  distant  countries  there  to  live  His  life. 


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"One  has  come  back  to  me.     I  have  my  home 
In  his  green-gabled  and  white-pillar' d  house, 
Where  love  and  bounty  compass  me  about. 
Without  him  I  should  be  too  powerless, 
To  wield  the  powers  of  what  mind  I  have, 
This  book  I  owe  to  him  and  to  his  wife, 
My  Sister. 

"The  other  brother,  given  me  by  law, 
Has  gone  away  to  do  his  work  unseen 
By  us  who  struggle  to  keep  pace  with  him; 
To  him,  and  his  children  and  his  work, 
I  dedicate  this  book — and  to  his  wife, 
My  Sister." 

Scum  of  the  Earth  and  Other  Poems.    By  Robert  Haven 
Schauffler.     191 2. 

"To  the  memory  of  my  Mother,  Clara  Gray  Schauffler, 
Poet,  Musician,  and  friend  of  the '  Scum  of  the  Earth.  *  " 

Unknown  Quantity.     By  Henry  Van  Dyke.     1912. 

"Dedicated,  in  thankfulness,  to  the  memory  of  Dear 
Daughter  Dorothea: 

"'Ray  of  Light, 
Song  of  Joy, 
Heart  of  Love.' " 

The  Amateur  Gentleman.    By  Jeffrey  Famol.     1913. 

"To  my  father,  who  has  ever  chosen  the  'Harder  Way,* 
which  is  a  path  that  can  be  trodden  only  by  the  foot  of  a 
Man." 

The  Necessary  Evil.    By  Charles  Rann  Kennedy.     1913. 

"ToN.  A. 

'Because  of  your  innocence — your  white  soul. — And 
then  also,  you  are  my  child. — Not  only  his:  not  only  your 


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mother's:  but  mine:  everybody's:  the  world's.     Yes,  you 
shall  be  that  henceforward,  down  the  days. 

"  'And  that  is  why  you  have  had  to  hear  this  terrible 
thing.'" 

The  White  Rose  Benight  and  Other  Poems.  By  Margaret 
P.  Hillhouse.     (n.  d.) 

"To  the  Memory  of  my  Beloved  Nephew,  Thomas  Hill- 
house,  Jr. 

"  'He  being  perfect  in  a  short  time,  fulfilled  a  long  time, 
for  his  soul  pleased  the  Lord:  wherefore  hasted  he  to  take 
him  away  from  among  the  wicked.' — Wisdom  4-13.  14. 

"  'The  souls  of  the  righteous  are  in  the  hands  of  God: 
in  the  sight  of  the  unwise  they  seemed  to  die,  but  they  are 
in  peace.' — Wisdom  3-1.  2.  3." 

Chickamauga  to  Corregidor — a  Poetical  Anthology  of  the 
Spanish  War.  Compiled  by  Margaret  P.  Hillhouse 
and  unpublished. 

"to  MY  MOTHER 

"From  ordered  gardens  fair  and  tangled  wilds, 
To  you  this  bunch  of  simple  flowers  I  bring. 
Blooming  in  beauty  though  the  great  guns  roar, 
And  martial  bugles  ring. 

"Beside  the  heliotrope,  the  lavender, 
Tea-roses,  pale  green  sprigs  of  mignonette. 
And  clove-pinks  gathered  near  straight  arbored  walks, 
Are  in  this  nosegay  set. 

"  Trailing-arbutus,  from  New  England  woods. 
The  May-flower's  blossom,  blushing  'neath  the  snows; 
Like  love  within  the  Puritan's  stern  heart 
Its  hidden  beauty  grows. 


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"And  from  the  sunny  South,  to  thee  I  bring 
White  bolls  of  stubble-cotton  and  the  vine, 
Whose  cups  a  faint  delicious  perfume  hold, 
The  yellow  jessamine. 

"And  sprays  of  that  mysterious  white  flower. 
The  rose  of  Cherokee  that  starlike  gleams, 
Above  the  blackness  of  the  cypress  swamp. 
And  almost  holy  seems. 

"From  the  wide  prairies  of  the  boundless  West, 
The  scarlet  cactus  and  verbena  here 
Mingle  with  Black-eyed  Susans  rollicking, 
And  waving  grasses  sere. 

"Lush  orange  blossoms  from  Sierra's  feet, 
Across  the  sunset  seas  a  message  send, 
And  bearing  greetings  to  our  wooded  heights. 
Sand  pinks  to  laurels  bend. 

"The  golden-rod  and  Columbine,  I  bring — 
Light-hearted  vagrants  found  where'er  one  strays, 
And  the  mondamin  tall  whose  lance-like  leaves, 
Guard  well  our  tasseled  maize. 

"Then  take  these  simple  flowers  of  poesy, 
Culled  in  the  Northern  regions  of  the  pine, 
Or  where  above  the  wide  plantation  door. 
Trails  odorous  jessamine. 

"I  found  them  on  the  wild  and  rugged  shores 
Of  the  stern  sea  forever  shouting  '  Go ' 
And  by  the  gently  wooing  sea  of  Peace, 
Calling  us  '  Westward,  Ho ! ' 

"M.  P.  H." 


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mother's:  but  mine:  everybody's:  the  world's.     Yes,  you 
shall  be  that  henceforward,  down  the  days. 

"  'And  that  is  why  you  have  had  to  hear  this  terrible 
thing.'" 

The  White  Rose  Knight  and  Other  Poems.  By  Margaret 
P.  Hillhouse.     (n.  d.) 

"To  the  Memory  of  my  Beloved  Nephew,  Thomas  Hill- 
house,  Jr. 

"  'He  being  perfect  in  a  short  time,  fulfilled  a  long  time, 
for  his  soul  pleased  the  Lord:  wherefore  hasted  he  to  take 
him  away  from  among  the  wicked.' — Wisdom  4-13.  14. 

"  'The  souls  of  the  righteous  are  in  the  hands  of  God: 
in  the  sight  of  the  unwise  they  seemed  to  die,  but  they  are 
in  peace.' — Wisdom  3-1.  2.  3." 

Chickamauga  to  Corregidor — a  Poetical  Anthology  of  the 
Spanish  War.  Compiled  by  Margaret  P.  Hillhouse 
and  unpublished. 

"to  MY  MOTHER 

"From  ordered  gardens  fair  and  tangled  wilds, 
To  you  this  bunch  of  simple  flowers  I  bring, 
Blooming  in  beauty  though  the  great  guns  roar, 
And  martial  bugles  ring. 

"Beside  the  heliotrope,  the  lavender. 
Tea-roses,  pale  green  sprigs  of  mignonette, 
And  clove-pinks  gathered  near  straight  arbored  walks. 
Are  in  this  nosegay  set. 

"  Trailing-arbutus,  from  New  England  woods. 
The  May-flower's  blossom,  blushing  'neath  the  snows; 
Like  love  within  the  Puritan's  stern  heart 
Its  hidden  beauty  grows. 


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"And  from  the  sunny  South,  to  thee  I  bring 
White  bolls  of  stubble-cotton  and  the  vine, 
Whose  cups  a  faint  delicious  perfume  hold, 
The  yellow  jessamine. 

"And  sprays  of  that  mysterious  white  flower. 
The  rose  of  Cherokee  that  starlike  gleams, 
Above  the  blackness  of  the  cypress  swamp, 
And  almost  holy  seems. 

"From  the  wide  prairies  of  the  boundless  West, 
The  scariet  cactus  and  verbena  here 
Mingle  with  Black-eyed  Susans  rollicking, 
And  waving  grasses  sere. 

"Lush  orange  blossoms  from  Sierra's  feet, 
Across  the  sunset  seas  a  message  send, 
And  bearing  greetings  to  our  wooded  heights. 
Sand  pinks  to  laurels  bend. 

"The  golden-rod  and  Columbine,  I  bring — 
Light-hearted  vagrants  found  where'er  one  strays. 
And  the  mondamin  tall  whose  lance-like  leaves, 
Guard  well  our  tasseled  maize. 

"Then  take  these  simple  flowers  of  poesy, 
Culled  in  the  Northern  regions  of  the  pine, 
Or  where  above  the  wide  plantation  door. 
Trails  odorous  jessamine. 

"I  found  them  on  the  wild  and  rugged  shores 
Of  the  stern  sea  forever  shouting  '  Go ' 
And  by  the  gently  wooing  sea  of  Peace, 
Calling  us  'Westward,  Ho!' 

"M.  P.  H. 


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Night  Caps.     By  the  Author  of  Aunt  Fanny^s  Christmas 
Stories,     (n.  d.) 

"To  my 
Rusty,  fusty,  crusty,  gusty, 
Kind,  good-hearted,  generous,  trusty 

Bachelor  Brother 

And  no  other 
(Who  will  maintain,  were  't  his  last  word 
That  children  should  be  seen,  not  heard), 
This  book  of  many  a  childish  trait 
And  talk,  which  he  pretends  to  hate, 
Most  lovingly  I  dedicate." 

With  a  humorous  take-oflF  on  the  sentimental  dedication,  of 
■which  the  preceding  pages  may  have  offered  a  few  examples,  this 
chapter  may  be  concluded.  Hilaire  Belloc  dedicates  his  Caliban's 
Guide  to  Letters  to  "Catherine,  Mrs.  Caliban,  but  for  whose  fruitful 
suggestion,  ever-ready  sympathy,  powers  of  observation,  kindly 
criticism,  unflinching  courage,  catholic  learning,  and  none  the  less 
Christian  principle,  this  book  might  as  well  not  have  been  written, 
— it  is  dedicated  by  her  obedient  and  grateful  servant  and  friend 
in  affliction. 

"The  Author." 


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XTo  ©neselt 


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XVI 

Zo  ®neself 

The  Scourge  of  Villainie.     By  John  Marston.     1599. 

"To    his    most    esteemed    and    best-beloved    Self,    dat 
dedicatque." 

An  amiable  poem  follows — "To  Detraction  I  present  my  Poesy." 

"Foul  canker  of  fair  virtuous  action, 
Vile  blaster  of  the  freshest  blooms  on  earth. 
Envy's  abhorred  child.  Detraction, 
I  here  expose  to  thy  all-tainting  breath, 

The  issue  of  my  brain :  snarl,  rail,  bark,  bite, 
Know  that  my  spirit  scorns  Detraction's  spite." 

Abuses  Stript  and  Whipt.    By  George  Wither.     1622. 

"To  himselfe,  G.  W.  wisheth  all  Happinesse: 
■ '  Thou  (even  my  Selfe)  whom  next  God,  my  Prince  and 
Country,  I  am  most  engaged  unto;  it  is  not  unHkely,but 
some  wil  wonder,  why,  contrary  to  the  worlds  custome, 
I  have  made  choise  of  Thy  Patronage  for  this  Booke, 
rather  than  the  protection  of  such  whose  Mightinesse 
might  seeme  better  able  to  defend  it."  Wither  then  gives 
seven  reasons  for  his  choice  of  himself.  "The  first  is  this: 
I  could  not  amongst  all  men,  finde  any  man,  in  my  opinion, 
so  fitting  for  this  purpose,  but  either  my  worke  was 
unworthy,  or  too  worthie  his  Patronage.  Secondly,  it 
is  saide:  Obseqtnum  amicos,  Veritas  odium  parit;  and  I 
doubting  my  free  speech  would  hardly  make  a  Diapason, 
pleasing  to  the  eare  of  a  common  Meccenas,  thought  it 
best  to  holde  my  tongue,  or  speake  to  my  selfe,  whose  dis- 

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position  I  am  better  acquainted  with.  Thirdly,  seeing  I 
know  but  what  men  appeare,  and  not  what  they  are;  I  had 
rather  endure  the  Kites  tyranny,  than  with  ^sops  Doves 
make  the  Sparrow-hawke  my  Champion.  Fourthly,  if  I 
have  spoken  Truth,  It  is  able  to  defend  it  selfe;  if  not,  who- 
ere  be  my  Patron,  it  is  I  must  answer  for  it.  Fiftly,  for- 
asmuch as  I  know  mine  owne  mind  best,  I  purpose,  if  neede 
be,  to  become  mine  owne  Advocate.  Sixtly,  for  my  owne 
sake  I  first  made  it,  and  therefore  certaine  I  am  I  myselfe 
have  most  right  unto  it.  But  seventhly,  and  lastly,  .  .  . 
I  have  made  this  Dedication  to  mine  owne  Selfe;  even  to 
put  thee  in  minde,  seeing  thou  hast  here  boldly  begun 
to  bid  defiance  to  the  Flesh,  and  upon  just  causes  quarrelled 
with  the  world,  that  thou  take  heede  to  thine  owne  words." 
He  then  devotes  several  pages  to  an  edifying  sermon 
addressed  to  himself,  and  concludes:  "But  now,  though  for 
these  and  diverse  other  Reasons,  I  have  to  thee  my  Owne 
Selfe  committed  the  Protection,  and  made  the  Dedication 
of  this  Booke;  yet  my  meaning  is  not  that  thou  shouldst 
keepe  it  wholly  to  thine  owne  use.  ...  But  because  I 
begin  to  growe  tedious  to  my  Owne-selfe,  since  therefore, 
I  shall  have  Opportunitie  enough  to  consider  with  thee  what 
is  further  needful  without  an  Epistle:  with  my  Prayers  for 
my  Prince,  my  Country,  my  Friends,  and  my  owne  pros- 
perity, without  any  leave-taking,  or  commendations  of  my 
Selfe,  I  hartily  wish  my  owne  Soule  to  fare- well. 
"Thy  Princes,  thy  Countries 
"Thy  Friends,  thine  owne, 

"  whilst  Reason  masters  Affection, 

"Geo.  Wither." 

Narrative  of  the  Life  of  Mrs.  Charlotte  Charke,  Written 
by  Herself.     1755. 
"The  Author  to  Herself. 
"Madam, 
"Though  flattery  is  universally  known  to  be  the  spring 


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from  which  dedications  frequently  flow,  I  hope  I  shall 
escape  that  odium  so  justly  thrown  on  poetical  petitioners, 
notwithstanding  my  attempt  to  illustrate  those  wonderful 
qualifications  by  which  you  have  so  eminently  distinguished 
yourself,  and  gives  you  a  just  claim  to  the  title  of  a  non- 
pareil of  the  age. 

"That  thoughtless  ease  (so  peculiar  to  yourself)  with 
which  you  have  run  through  many  strange  and  unaccount- 
able vicissitudes  of  fortune,  is  an  undeniable  proof  of  the 
native  indolent  sweetness  of  your  temper.  With  what 
fortitude  of  mind  have  you  vanquished  sorrow,  with  the 
fond  imagination  and  promissory  hopes  (only  from  your- 
self) of  a  succession  of  happiness,  neither  within  your  povrer 
or  view? 

"Your  exquisite  taste  in  building  must  not  be  omitted: 
the  magnificent  airy  castles,  for  which  you  daily  drew  out 
plans  without  foundation,  must,  could  they  have  been 
distinguishable  to  sight,  long  ere  this  have  darkened  all  the 
lower  world;  nor  can  you  be  matched,  in  oddity  of  fame, 
by  any  but  that  celebrated  knight-errant  of  the  moon, 
George  Alexander  Stevens,  whose  memoirs,  and  yours  con- 
joined, would  make  great  figures  in  history,  and  might 
justly  claim  a  right  to  be  transmitted  to  posterity;  as  you 
are,  without  exception,  two  of  the  greatest  curiosities  that 
ever  were  the  incentives  to  the  most  profound  astonishment, 

"My  choice  of  you,  madam,  to  patronize  my  works,  is 
an  evidential  proof  that  I  am  not  disinterested  in  that  point : 
as  the  world  will  easily  be  convinced,  from  your  natural 
partiality  to  all  I  have  hitherto  produced,  that  you  will 
tenderly  overlook  their  errors,  and  to  the  utmost  of  your 
power,  endeavour  to  magnify  their  merits.  If,  by  your 
approbation,  the  world  may  be  persuaded  into  a  tolerable 
opinion  of  my  labours  I  shall,  for  the  novelty-sake,  venture 
for  once  to  call  you  friend, — a  name,  I  own,  I  never  as  yet 
have  known  you  by. 

"I  hope,  dear  madam,  as  Manly  says  in  The  Provoked 


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^0  animals 


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XVII 
Zo  Bnlmal0 

Oiir  Dogs.     By  Dr.  John  Brown.     1862. 

"To  Sir  Walter  and  Lady  Trevelyan's  glum  and  faithful 
'Peter'  (a  dog)  with  much  regard." 

The  Fishing  Tourist.    By  Charles  Hallock.     1873. 

"  To  Salmo,  King  of  Game  Fish,  these  few  lines   are 
respectfully  dedicated  by  an  old  retainer. 

A  Catagraph.     By  C.  M.  Van  Wagenen.     (C.  1885.) 
"  Dedicated  to  the  memory  of  Satinella,  my  cat. 

"  A  CATASTROPHE 

"By  way  of  Ca^astasis  let  me  relate 
The  subject  of  this  is  my  Cat  and  her  fate. 
My  Cat  whose  black  fur  was  so  glossy  and  fine 
Her  use  of  Ca^haron  one  well  could  divine. 
Almost  indeed  a  Ca/opter  she  showed. 
Well  rubbed,  she  became  a  Ca/electrode. 
Nor  at  all  Catochrestical  were  it  to  say 
She  had  taken  the  Catacombs  once  in  her  way, 
A  concatenation  of  virtues  so  rare 
Deserves  Categorical  mention  and  care. 
One  sad  day  she  cHmbed  a  Catalpa.  to  Cai 
— Er  for  her  most  delicate  taste,  or  to  sate 
Her  Callings,  within  a  Cat's-cradLe  that  lay 
A  dreaming  of  Catmp,  a'weary  of  play — 
A  quick  Catalepsy  seized  on  her,  she  fell, 
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And  no  Ca/aplasm  could  e'er  make  her  well. 

As  if  she  were  shot  from  a  Catapult  down 

She  fell,  but  not  as  you  'd  think  on  her  crown, 

She  fell  like  a  Co/aract,  right  on  her  toes. 

And  so  made  an  end  of  her  wants  and  her  woes. 

All  cried,  give  the  poor  Ca/-er-piller  in  vain. 

'T  was  no  Ca/agmatic,  alone  did  remain 

To  raise  such  a  Cataialqae  under  the  tree 

As  they  give  to  the  Shahs  (chats)  in  Crim  Tartary 

And  leave  her,  her  Catgxxts  to  take  with  her  where 

The  Ca/-sup  in  safety  or  starve  in  despair. 

In  sparkling  Catawba,  we  '11  drink  to  our  pet 

Reqmescat  in  pace,  cum  Cato  et  cet." 

Ways  of  Wood  Folk.    By  William  Joseph  Long.     1899. 

"To  Plato,  the  owl,  who  looks  over  my  shoulder  as  I 
write,  and  who  knows  all  about  the  woods." 

The  Book  of  Saints  and  Friendly  Beasts.    By  Abbie  Farwell. 
1900. 

"In  loving  memory  of  a  friendly  beast." 

Our  Native  Trees  and  how  to  Identify  them.     By  Harriet 
L.  Keeler.     1900. 

"To  the  memory  of  Phyllis  and  Nicholas,  my  loving 
companions  through  field  and  wood,  this  volume  is  dedi- 
cated." 

Under  the  names  is  a  picture  of  two  dogs. 

Wilderness  Ways.    By  William  Joseph  Long.     1900. 

"To  Killooleet,  little  Sweet- Voice  [a  bird — the  white- 
throat]  who  shares  my  camp  and  makes  sunshine  as  I  work 
and  play." 


To  Animals  391 


Concerning  Cats.     My  Own  and  Some  Others.     By  Helen 
M.  Winslow.     1900. 

"To  the  'Pretty  lady,'  who  never  betrayed  a  secret, 
broke  a  promise,  or  proved  an  iinfaithful  friend;  who  had 
all  the  virtues  and  none  of  the  failings  of  her  sex,  I  dedicate 
this  volume." 

An  account  of  Pretty  Lady,  which  takes  up  several  pages  of  the 
book,  concludes  thus-  "Requiescat  in  pace,  my  Pretty  Lady.     I 
wish  all  your  sex  had  your  gentle  dignity,  and  grace,  and  beauty, 
to  say  nothing  of  your  faithfulness  and  affection.     Like  Mother 
Michel's  'Monmouth,'  it  may  be  said  of  you: — 
" '  She  was  merely  a  cat, 
But  her  sublime  Virtues  place  her  on  a  level  with 
The  most  celebrated  mortals, 
and 
In  ancient  Egypt 
Altars  would  have  been  erected  to  her 
Memory.'  " 

Secrets  of  the  Woods.    By  William  Joseph  Long.     1901. 

"To  Ch'geegee-lokh-sis,  'Little  Friend  Ch'geegee,'  whose 
coming  makes  the  winter  glad."     (The  squirrel.) 

The  Fireside  Sphinx.    By  Agnes  Repplier.     1901. 

"In  memory  of  Agrippina." 

In  the  author's  Foreword,  Agrippina  is  represented  as  worthy  of 
a  place  among  the  honored  cats  of  literature,  with  Arnold's  Atossa, 
Dr.  Johnson's  Hodge,  Sir  Walter  Scott's  Hinse,  and  Cowper's 
tabby  of  Bureau-drawer  fame.  "Into  this  august  assembly,  into 
this  sacred  circle,  I  fain  in  moments  of  temerity  would  introduce  a 
little  shade  who  stole  too  soon  from  the  warm  sun,  and  from  the 
simple  joys  of  life.  She  was  dearly  loved  and  early  lost,  and  the 
scanty  honours  years  of  toil  have  brought  me  I  lay  at  her  soft  feet 
for  entrance  fee.  May  Hodge  and  Hinse  champion  her  cause  with 
the  Immortals  for  the  sake  of  the  unfaltering  love  I  have  ever  borne 
their  masters,  and  may  her  grace  and  beauty  win  for  her  what  ray 
poor  pen  is  powerless  to  attain !  Dear  little  ghost,  whose  memory 
has  never  faded  from  my  heart,  accept  this  book,  dedicated  to  thee, 
and  to  all  thy  cherished  race.     Sleep  sweetly  in  the  fields  of 


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asphodel,  and  waken,  as  of  old,  to  stretch  thy  languid  length,  and 
purr  thy  soft  contentment  to  the  skies.  I  only  beg,  as  one  before 
me  begged  of  her  dead  darling,  that,  midst  the  joys  of  Elysium^ 
I  may  not  be  wholly  forgotten. 

" '  Nor,  though  Persephone's  own  Puss  you  be, 
Let  Orcus  breed  oblivion  of  me.'  " 

Flowers  and  Ferns  in  their  Haunts.    By  Mabel  Osgood 
Wright.     1 90 1. 

"This  book  is  dedicated  to  Nell  Gwynn  my  pony — by 
whose  name  there  hangs  a  tale — in  recognition  of  our 
friendship,  and  of  her  intelligence  in  knowing  when  to 
stand  still." 

Our  Devoted  Friend  the  Dog.    By  Sarah  Knowles  Bolton. 
1902. 

"To  my  little  grandson  Stanwood  Knowles  Bolton  and. 
his  dog  Tim." 

Bird  and  Bough.    By  John  Burroughs.     1906. 

"To  the  kinglet  that  sang  in  my  evergreens  in  October 
and  made  me  think  it  was  May." 

'^  Shaggycoat,  the  Biography  of   a   Beaver.    By    Clarence 
Hawkes.     1906. 

"Dedicated  to  my  Little  Brother,  the  Venetian,  who 
living  in  a  house  that  his  hands  have  made,  surrounded  by 
a  moat  of  his  own  device,  the  head  of  a  large  family  and  a 
citizen  in  a  goodly  community,  is  more  like  a  man  in  his 
mode  of  life,  than  any  other  of  God's  creatures." 

Yoimg  Folks'  Nature  Field  Book.    By  J.  Alden  Loring* 
1906. 

"This  book  is  dedicated  to  my  first  wild  pet,  who  was  the 
most  interesting  and  intelligent  creature  I  have  tamed. 
He  chased  the  children  into  their  houses  by  pinching  their 
legs;  he  awoke  the  dog  by  pulling  its  tail;  and  he  pecked 
the  horses'  feet,  then  jumped  back  and  crouched  low  to 


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escape  being  kicked.  Because  of  his  thieving  instinct,  he 
kept  me  at  war  with  the  neighbors.  His  last  mischievous 
act  was  to  pull  the  corks  from  the  red  and  the  black  ink 
bottles,  tip  them  over,  fly  to  the  bed,  and  cover  the  coimter- 
pane  with  tracks.  I  found  him  dead  in  the  workroom  the 
following  morning,  his  black  beak  red,  and  his  red  mouth 
black." 

The  Seasons  in  a  Flower  Garden.     By  Louise  Shelton. 
1906. 

"To  the  memory  of  my  little  spaniel,  'Idol,'  for  twelve 
years  my  shadow  in  my  garden." 

Tenants  of  the  Trees.    By  Clarence  Hawkes.     1907. 

"Dedicated  to  that  brave  little  herald  of  Spring,  the 
Bluebird,  whose  light,  sweet  song  gladdens  us  in  lulls  of 
the  March  gale,  bidding  us  be  of  good  cheer,  and  telling 
us  Spring  will  come  again." 

The   Natural   History  of   the  Ten  Commandments.    By 
Ernest  Thompson  Seton.     1907. 

"Dedicated  to  the  Beasts  of  the  Field  by  a  Hunter." 

Firm,  the  Wolfhound.    By  A.  J.  Dawson.     1908. 

"To  'The  Mistress  of  the  Kennels'  and  to  the  memory  of 
Tynagh,  mother  of  wolfhoimd  heroes,  its  writer  dedicates 
this  history." 

The  Grizzly  Bear.     By  William  H.  Wright.     1909. 

"This  book  is  dedicated  with  the  respect,  admiration 
and  affection  of  the  author,  to  the  noblest  wild  animal  of 
North  America,  the  grizzly  bear." 


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A  Holiday  with  the  Birds.     By  Jeannette  Marks  and  Julia 
Moody.     1910. 

"This  book  on  birds  is  inscribed  to  one  of  them — Captain 
Speckles  of  the  Gull  Marines,  a  brave  voyageur  on  the 
Atlantic  Ocean." 

Scottie  and  His  Lady.     By  Margaret  F.  Morse.     1910. 

"  In  memory  of  Marco  and  Dusky,  this  book  is  dedicated 
to  the  dog  lovers  of  the  world  and  their  dogs." 

Gift  of  the  Grass.     Being  the  Autobiography  of  a  Famous 
Racing  Horse.     By  John  Trotwood  Moore.     191 1. 

"Great  horses  are  like  great  men:  they  achieve  greatness 
because  greatness  is  born  in  them.  And  if  ever  of  an 
unconquered  mortal  these  lines  might  be  said,  truly  of  this 
horse  are  they  applicable : 

"  'Out  of  the  night  that  covers  me, 

Black  as  the  pit  from  pole  to  pole, 
I  thank  whatever  gods  may  be 
For  my  unconquerable  soul. ' 

"And  so  I  dedicate  this  book  to  four  of  them  that  I 
knew  and  loved — all  of  a  family,  and  all  unbeaten  cham- 
pions of  their  day.  They  were  gentlemen  without  knowing 
it,  friends  without  pay,  generals  unbooked,  and  heroes 
without  feathers  or  trappings: 

"Little  Brown  Jug,  2:ii|;  Hal  Pointer,  2:04^;  Brown 
Hal,  2:i2|,  and  Star  Pointer,  1:59!,— immortal  quartet 
of  the  unbeaten  Hals." 

Good  and  Bad  Cats.     By  Frederick  White.     191 1. 

"To  Fuzzy-Wuzzy — a  perfectly  good  cat  except  when 
she  is  bad  or  (as  is  usually  the  case)  utterly  indifferent." 

The  Girondin.     By  Hilaire  Belloc.     1912. 

"To  the  Horses  Facte  and  Basilique,  now  with  their 
father  Jove." 


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Uo  ZbirxQs  Spiritual 


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XVIII 

XTo  UbfuQS  Spiritual 

Don  Quixote.    Edition  published  at  Madrid,  1714. 

"To  the  renown  of  the  Catholic  rehgion.  To  the  agony 
of  Penitence.  To  the  image  of  Purity.  To  the  lover  of 
Solitude.  To  the  master  of  the  Holy  Scripture.  To  the 
honor  of  Rome,  to  the  glory  of  Greece.  To  the  happiness 
of  Palestine.  To  the  penitent  of  Syria.  To  the  Cardinal 
of  Belem.  To  the  most  glorious  and  holy  father  of  his 
religion,  the  great  doctor  of  the  Church  of  St.  Jerome." 
(Followed  by  two  pages  of  text.) 

Notes  on  the  West  Indies.    By  George  Pinckard.    1806. 

"dedication  to  friendship 

"Looking  round,  as  it  is  said  authors  are  wont,  for  a 
great  personage  to  whose  name  I  might  dedicate  my  work, 
I  have  not  found  it  possible  to  fix  upon  anyone  to  whom  I 
could  with  so  much  propriety  consign  it,  as  to  .  .  .  its 
Parent!  Accept,  then,  Benign  Power !  thine  offspring;  cherish 
it  even  as  Thou  hast  begotten  it;  and  cause  thy  warmest 
influence  ever  to  animate  the  heart  of  thy  faithful  and 
devoted  servant, 

"The  Author." 

Le    Ministere     de    I'Enfance.     Traduit     de     PAnglais. 
(Anonymous.)     1858. 

"  D^die  a  la  Jeunesse: 

"Et  ils  lui  dirent:  Entends-tu  que  ces  enfants  disent? 

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Et  ]6sus  leur  dit:  Oui,  n'avez-vous  jamais  oui  ces  paroles — 
Tu  as  tir6  une  parfaite  louange  de  la  bouche  des  enfants 
et  de  ceux  qui  tettent? 

"  (Matth.  xxi,  i6)." 

Faust.  By  Johann  Wolfgang  von  Goethe.  Translated  by 
John  Stuart  Blackie.  1880.  (Dedication  prefixed  to  the 
later  editions  of  Faust.) 

"Ye  hover  nigh,  dim,  floating  shapes,  again, 
That  erst  the  misty  eye  of  fancy  knew! 
Shall  I  once  more  your  shadowy  flight  detain, 
And  the  fond  dreamings  of  my  youth  pursue? 
Ye  press  around ! — resume  your  ancient  reign. 
As  from  the  hazy  past  ye  rise  to  view. 
The  magic  breath  that  wafts  your  airy  train 
Stirs  in  my  breast  long-sliunbering  chords  again. 

"Ye  raise  the  pictured  forms  of  happy  days. 
And  many  a  dear-loved  shade  comes  up  with  you; 
Like  the  far  echo  of  old-memoried  lays, 
First  love  and  early  friendship  ye  renew; 
Old  pangs  return;  life's  labyrinthine  maze 
Again  the  plaint  of  sorrow  wanders  through. 
And  names  the  loved  ones  who  from  Fate  received 
A  bitter  call,  and  left  my  heart  bereaved. 

"They  hear  no  more  the  sequel  of  my  song. 
Who  heard  my  early  chant  with  open  ear; 
Dispersed  forever  is  the  favouring  throng, 
Dumb  the  response  from  friend  to  friend  so  dear. 
My  sorrow  floats  an  unknown  crowd  among. 
Whose  very  praise  comes  mingled  with  strange  fear; 
And  they  who  once  were  pleased  to  hear  my  lay. 
If  yet  they  live,  have  drifted  far  away. 


To  Things  Spiritual  399 


"And  I  recall,  with  long  unfelt  desire, 
That  realm  of  spirits,  solemn,  still,  serene. 
My  faltering  lay,  like  the  ^Eolian  lyre. 
Gives  wavering  tones,  with  many  a  pause  between; 
The  stern  heart  glows  with  youth's  rekindled  fire, 
Tear  follows  tear,  where  long  no  tear  hath  been; 
The  thing  I  am  fades  into  distance  gray ; 
And  the  pale  Past  stands  out  a  clear  To-day." 

Science  in  Song,  or   Nature   in   Numbers.    By   W.    C. 
Richards.     1885. 

"Shall  Science  win  no  meed  of  song. 
To  whom  all  harmonies  belong, 

And  poets'  praises. 
Her  realm  the  wide  expanse  of  light, 
While  to  the  outer  stars  her  flight 

Our  knowledge  raises? 

"Oh,  for  the  voice  of  seraphim 
To  breathe  a  high  and  worthy  hymn 

By  inspiration! 
Her  themes  of  wonder  to  expand, 
Her  trophies  meet  for  Milton's  grand 

Delineation. 

"With  wit  my  wishes  far  outrun, 
I  dedicate  Love's  labor  done 

To  Star-eyed  Science, 
And  on  the  grandeiu:  of  her  scope. 
To  please  my  reader,  fix  my  hope 

And  sole  reliance." 

Campfire,  Memorial  Day,  and  Other  Poems.     By  B.  K. 
Sherwood.     1885. 

"In  the  spirit  of  Fraternity,  Charity,  and  Loyalty,  to 
whose  majestic  measures  the  veterans  of  the  Grand.  Army 
of  the  RepubHc  have  timed  their  steps,  I  bring  these  simple 


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recitals  of  fealty  and  valor  in  honor  of  the  living  and  in 
reverent  memor}-  of  the  dead,  and  lay  them  on  the  altar 
of  my  Country — Reunited,  Regenerated,  and  at  Peace." 

My  Lady's  Chamber.     By  C.  M.  Van  Wagenen.     (n.  d.) 

"dedication  to  friendship 

"Blest  efflorescence  of  a  Life  Divine, 
Its  seed  within  itself — thy  beauties  shine 
In  human  lives,  with  influence  benign, 
Nor  death  itself  can  force  thee  to  resign 
Thy  hold  upon  the  soil  where  once  entwine 
Thy  spreading  roots.     As  thou  dost  upward  grow, 
How  varied  are  thy  charms !     So  dost  thou  show 
E'en  as  a  lovely  garden,  in  the  glow 
Of  happy  years.     Yet  grief's  cold  rain  I  trow 
Reveals  new  beauties,  and  a  new  delight 
Grows  ever  clearer  through  the  darksome  night, 
As  through  a  lantern's  glass  a  taper  fine 
May  pierce  the  darkness  of  the  deepest  mine, 
Divine  Love  shows  by  thee  to  human  sight." 

The  American  Citizen.     By  Charles  F.  Dole.     1891. 

"To  American  citizenship  after  the  type  of  Washington, 
the  Adamses,  and  Lincoln,  noble,  devoted,  disinterested, 
magnanimous,  fearless,  reverent,  this  book  is  dedicated," 

The  Pearl.     An  English  Poem  of  the  Fourteenth  Century. 
(Modernized  by  Israel  Gollancz.)     1891. 

"To  a  Child's  love  I  ded'cate  Pearl." 

The  Song-Life  of  a  Sculptor.     By  William  O.  Partridge. 
1894. 

"I  dedicate  these  verses  to  the  quickening  of  that  new 
order  of  Hving  when  men  shall  be  actually  free. 

"For,   notwithstanding  our  boasted  emancipation,   we 


To  Things  Spiritual  401 

are  but  bondsmen  so  long  as  our  spirits  and  the  child- 
heart  within  us,  are  enslaved  by  tradition,  convention,  and 
meaningless  forms.  We  are  still  living  in  the  shows  of 
things.  Freedom  is  a  word  upon  the  Hp,  not  an  inspiration 
for  the  heart.  Those  who  are  in  command  think  them- 
selves free,  not  knowing  that  the  first  element  in  freedom  is 
obedience.  Epictetus,  while  a  slave  in  body,  was  actually 
more  free  than  those  he  served,  and  whose  bodies  could  be 
moved  from  place  to  place. 

"I  do  not  imderstand  why  we  should  not  attain  the  best 
we  are  capable  of  having  and  being.  This  would  seem  to 
be  the  truest  Political  Economy. 

' '  May  God  hasten  the  time  when  human  life  shall  be 
made  entirely  free  and  beautiful!  Then  insight  and  fore- 
sight shall  take  the  place  of  dogma  and  authority.  Then 
love  shall  be  the  law  of  life,  and  poetr\'  its  language." 

At  the  Wind's  Will.     By  Louise  Chandler  Moulton.     1899. 

"to  hope 

"Undying  Hope,  Memory's  immortal  heir, 
To  thee  I  consecrate  this  sheaf  of  song, — 
In  darkest  gloom,  of  thee  I  am  aware; 

Thy  magic  is  to  make  the  weak  soul  strong." 

The  Biography  of  a  Grizzly.     By  Ernest  Thompson  Seton. 
1900. 

"This  book  is  dedicated  to  the  memory  of  the  days  spent 
at  the  Palette  Ranch  on  the  Graybull,  where  from  htmter, 
miner,  personal  experience,  and  the  host  himself,  I  gathered 
many  chapters  of  the  history  of  Wahb." 

Lives  of  the  Hunted.     By  Ernest  Thompson  Seton.     1901. 

"To  the  preservation  of  our  Wild  Creatures,  I  dedicate 
this  book." 
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402  Dedications 


Two  Little  Savages.     By  Ernest  Thompson  Seton.     1903. 

"To  Woodcraft,  by  one  who  owes  it  many  lasting 
pleasures." 

Content  in  A  Garden.     By  Candace  Wheeler.     1904. 

"To  the  mysterious  spirit  of  growth  and  infinite  beauty 
of  Flowers — this  book  is  humbly  and  gratefully  dedicated 
by  the  author." 

From  the  Hills  of  Dream.     By  Fiona  Macleod  (William 
Sharp).     1904. 

"to  A  MEMORY 

"The  Hills  of  Dream, 
"St.  John's  Eve,  1901. 
"  There  has  been  twilight  here,  since  one  whom  some  name 
Life  and  some  Death  slid  between  us  the  little  shadow  that 
is  the  unfathomable  dark  and  silence.  In  a  grave  deeper 
than  is  hollowed  under  the  windsweet  grass  lies  that  which 
was  so  passing  fair.  Who  plays  the  Song  of  Songs  upon 
the  Hills  of  Dream?  It  is  said  Love  is  that  reed- player,  for 
there  is  no  song  like  his.  But  to-day  I  saw  one,  on  these 
dim  garths  of  shadow  and  silence  who  put  a  reed  to  his 
lips  and  played  a  white  spell  of  beauty.  Then  I  knew  Love 
and  Death  to  be  one,  as  in  the  old  myth  of  Oengus  of  the 
White  Birds  and  the  Grey  Shadows. 

"Here  are  the  broken  airs  that  once  you  loved. 
'  The  fable-flowering  land  wherein  they  grew 
Hath  dreams  for  stars,  and  grey  romance  for  dew.  * 
They  are  but  the  breath  of  what  has  been:  only  are  they 
for  this,  that  they  do  the  will  of  beauty  and  regret." 

God  a  Present  Help.     By  H.  Emilie  Cady.     1908. 

"Steadfastly  beholding  Thee,  I  lovingly  dedicate  this 
volume  to  the  divinity  in  every  soul,  hoping  that  it  may 
hasten  the  realization  of  the  Truth  which  makes  free." 


To  Things  Spiritual  403 


Peter  Moor's  Journey  to  Southwest  Africa.     By  Gustav 
Frenssen.     Translated  by  Margaret  May  Ward.     1908. 

"This  book  is  dedicated  with  tender  and  loving  memory 
to  the  cause  which  the  translator  hoped  it  might  aid,  the 
cause  for  which  she  was  always  ready  to  give  her  abounding 
strength,  and  to  the  service  of  which  she  brought  the 
wisdom  of  a  loyal  nature  and  a  noble  mind — to  the  cause 
of  Peace. 

"A.  H.  W." 

As   Old  as  the    Moon.     Cuban    Legends.     By  Florence 
Jackson  Stoddart.     1909. 

"To  the  memory  of  those  Beings  and  Forces  that  first 
led  my  mind  from  the  savagery  of  mfancy  toward  the 
civilization  of  education  and  the  delights  of  sympathy, 
these  tales  of  primitive  people  are  reverently  dedicated." 

Cosmo  Collection.     Edited  by  George  H.  Baker.     1910. 

"To  the  American  Fireside,  where  the  acquirement  of 
knowledge  and  the  cultivation  of  refinement  safeguard  our 
social,  industrial,  and  governmental  institutions,  these  pages 
are  sincerely  dedicated." 

The  Taming  of  John  Blunt.     By  Alfred  Ollivant.     191 1. 

"To  the  Future." 

The  Heroine  in  Bronze.     By  James  Lane  Allen.     1912. 

"To  Youth — its  Kingdoms  and  Ideals." 

Famous  Old  Receipts.     Compiled  by  Mrs.  W.  Hinckle- 
Smith  and  Mrs.  James  J.  Hulsey.     (n.  d.) 

"Dedicated  to  the  old  memories  which  this  book  will 
recall  of  the  hospitable  Homes  of  the  North  and  the 
South." 


XIX 


XTo  XTblngs,  animate  an^  Inanimate 


405 


XIX 
XCo  ZbingSf  Hnimate  an&  f  nanimate 

The  Romance  of  the  Sea.     By  Thatcher  M.  Brown. 

"To  the  Good  Clipper — Herald  of  the  Morning — ^which 
weathered  many  gales  and  brought  us  safely  home  and 
anchored  us  in  N.  Y.  harbor,  May  ii,  1858. 

"They  talk  of  the  pleasures  of  sailing 
O'er  the  'wide  and  the  lone  blue  sea,* 
But  poets  are  given  to  fibbing, 
It  has  lost  all  its  romance  for  me. 

"The  days  they  are  tedious  and  misty 
The  nights  they  are  rainy  and  cold, 
We  are  tossed  from  one  side  to  the  other 
And  the  beef  is  most  shockingly  old. 

**Our  ship  is  much  given  to  rolling, 
One  'd  certainly  think  she  was  drunk, 
She  takes  over  water  in  hogsheads. 
There  's  a  leak  just  over  my  bunk. 

"  I  am  seated  to  leeward  at  dinner 
That  lurch  caused  a  direful  mishap 
The  soup  that  was  meant  for  my  comfort 
Deposits  itself  in  my  lap. 

**  I  stand  some  fine  morning  in  wonder 
At  the  billows  that  follow  so  quick, 
When  aboard  comes  a  terrible  roller 
And  my  romance  is  washed  to  old  Nick. 
407 


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"I  wish  most  devoutly  that  poet 
Who  sings  of  the  charm  of  the  sea 
Was  aboard  an  American  cUpper 
With  the  '  Horn '  just  under  his  lee — 

"  Methinks  he  'd  give  over  his  romance 
And  be  glad  to  alter  his  tune 
And  return  to  '  love  in  a  cottage ' 
In  the  '  leafy  month  of  June. ' 

"No  longer  ago  than  last  Sunday 
My  last  pair  of  breeches  I  '  bent,  * 
And  here  't  is  the  evening  of  Monday, 
And  see  what  a  horrible  rent. 

'My  boots  they  are  falling  to  pieces 
My  coats  are  a  wonder  to  me 
I  shall  shortly  be  left  without  garments 
They  carry  no  tailors  to  sea. 

"Once  I  thought  a  sailor  an  angel 

And  not  over  given  to  grog, 

Alas  I  find  they  are  mortals 
.  And  often  get  drunk  as  a  log. 

"They  lie,  they  steal,  and  they  gamble; 
I  'd  rather  make  mortar  by  far 
Or  climb  with  a  hod  up  a  ladder 
Than  live  as  a  'jolly  Jack  tar.' 

"  Salt  water  looks  best  at  a  distance — 
But  hark — what  *s  that  terrible  crash! 
We  've  taken  a  sea  in  amidships 
And  washed  away  galley  and  mast. 


To  Things,  Animate  and  Inanimate    409 


"And  lo, — the  unfortunate  porker, 
Whose  carcase  we  expected  to  eat, 
Has  departed  to  Davy  Jones'  locker, 
And  vanished  are  dreams  of  fresh  meat. 

"They  sing  of  the  pleasures  of  sailing 
O'er  the  'wide  and  the  lone  blue  sea,' 
But  a  berth  by  a  blazing  fireside 
And  some  'terrafirma'  for  me." 

Little  Thatcher's  Fourth  Birthday.    By  Mrs.  C.  M.  Van 
Wagenen.     1880. 

"Dedicated  to  the  Four-Leaved  Clover." 
"Search  the  meadow  over 
For  a  four-leaved  clover! 
Little  Thatcher  's  four  to-day, 
In  the  meadow  loves  to  play. 

"Surely  some  kind  sprite  has  hidden 
Just  one  leaf  and  now  unbidden 
'Neath  the  winter  sleet  and  snow 
For  good  luck  the  sign  will  show? 

"See  it!  pluck  it!  press  it!  send  it! 
Quickly  lest  the  day  be  done 
And  the  wishes  with  the  blessings 
Banish  with  the  setting  sim. 

"Fovir  the  blessings — 
Love,  Joy,  Peace  and  without  measure 
Favour  of  the  Lord  whose  grace 
Giveth  unto  each  his  place. 

"Clover  leaf  from  cold  earth  springing. 
Thatcher  in  his  nursery  singing." 


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The  Joys  of  Childhood.     By  Mrs.  C.  M.  Van  Wagenen. 

Unpublished. 

"Dedicated  to  Betty,  to  my  Doll. 

"I  love  my  dolly,  yes,  indeed! 
You  may  be  old  and  gone  to  seed 

As  people  say. 
But  you  're  my  own,  my  dearest  child 
'Though  p'raps  you  look  a  little  wild. 

My  walking  doll. 

My  talking  doll, 
Are  very  fine,  but  they 
Are  parvenu,  so  says  Mamma 

And  only  of  to-day. 
But  Lisbeth  S.  was  her  best  loved 
And  named  for  the  dear  Giver, 
I  never  saw  him  for  he  died 
Because  he  had  a  liver. 
Now  you  see  why  the  bestest  dress 
Must  go  to  lovely  Lisbeth  S. 

One  eye  is  gone 

Your  nose  and  chin 

Are  melted  in. 
And  once  I  scrubbed  too  hard  and  long 
And  all  your  pretty  color  flew. 
Your  back  and  arms  are  not  so  strong 
But  still  you  're  lovelier  than  the  new, 
And  that  's  the  reason  why,  you  see, 
You  always,  always  play  with  me." 

The  Joys  of  Childhood.     By  Mrs.  C.  M.  Van  Wagenen. 
Unpublished. 

" To  my  Railroad  System.     By  a  Boy." 
"Why  so  I  have  got  lots  of  toys. 
And  some  can  make  a  precious  noise. 
But  give  me  you. 
Yes,  every  time. 


To  Things,  Animate  and  Inanimate   411 


Mamma  says — oh !  it  clutters  so, 

But  Dad  says  sho ! 

He  '11  be  a  railroad  magnate  yet. 

What 's  that?     Why  something  big  you  bet. 

Like  that  queer  steel  that  picks  out  things, 

Needles  and  nails  and  screws  and  things, 

To  beat  the  band. 
That 's  all  I  say 

But  when  I  stand 

As  tall  as  J.  K.  J. 
I  '11  give  him  one  for  every  letter 
To  make  a  rhyme  will  praise  you  better." 

Stopping  at  an  Inn.     Translation  from  the  German  of 
Uhland,  by  Mrs.  J.  P.  Van  Wagenen.     (n.  d.) 

"to  an  apple-tree 

"  Towards  a  kindly  Inn  of  late 
My  way  I  quickly  wended, 
A  golden  apple  was  the  sign 
Which  from  a  bough  depended. 

"It  was  'The  Friendly  Apple-Tree' 
And  many  guests  divided. 
On  flutt'ring  wings  the  dainty  things 
The  noble  host  provided. 

"I  laid  me  down  to  sweetest  rest, 
On  softest  couch  reposing. 
Of  emerald  green  the  mossy  bed, 
With  drap'ries  green  enclosing. 

"When  I  arose  refreshed  at  dawn 
And  asked  my  host  his  reck'ning, 
He  only  shook  his  stalwart  head 
With  kindly  gesture  beck'ning. 


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"And  as  we  parted  then  and  there, 
My  heart  replete  with  pleasure — 
I  blessed  him  well  from  (top  to  toe)  or  (root  to  crown) 
With  overflowing  measure." 

The  Idle  Thoughts  of  An  Idle  Fellow.    By  Jerome  K. 
Jerome.     1886. 

"To  the  very  dear  and  well  beloved  Friend  of  my  pros- 
perous and  evil  days. — To  the  friend,  who,  though  in  the 
early  stages  of  our  acquaintanceship,  he  did  ofttimes  dis- 
agree with  me,  has  since  come  to  be  my  very  warmest 
comrade.  To  the  friend  who,  however  often  I  may  put 
him  out,  never  (now)  upsets  me  in  revenge.  To  the  friend 
who,  treated  with  marked  coldness  by  all  the  female  mem- 
bers of  my  household,  and  regarded  with  suspicion  by  my 
very  dog,  nevertheless,  seems  day  by  day  to  be  more  drawn 
by  me,  and  in  return,  to  more  and  more  impregnate  me 
with  the  odour  of  his  friendship.  To  the  friend  who  never 
tells  me  of  my  faults,  never  wants  to  borrow  money,  and 
never  talks  about  himself.  To  the  companion  of  my  idle 
hours,  the  soother  of  my  sorrows,  the  confidant  of  my  joys 
and  hopes,  my  oldest  and  strongest  Pipe,  this  little  volume 
is  gratefully  and  affectionately  dedicated." 

Sketches  from  Concord  and  Appledore.    By  Frank  Preston 
Stearns.     1895. 

"To  a  Jacqueminot  Rose." 

The   Village   Watch-Tower.     By   Kate   Douglas   Wiggin, 
1895. 

"Dear  Old  Apple-tree,  under  whose  gnarled  branches 
these  stories  were  written,  to  you  I  dedicate  the  book.  My 
head  was  so  close  to  you,  who  can  tell  from  whence  the 
thoughts  came?  I  only  know  that  when  all  the  other 
trees  in  the  orchard  were  barren,  there  were  always  stories 
to  be  foimd  under  your  branches,  and  so  it  is  our  joint  book. 


To  Things,  Animate  and  Inanimate   413 


dear  apple-tree.  Your  pink  blossoms  have  fallen  on  the 
page  as  I  wrote;  your  ruddy  fruit  has  dropped  into  my  lap; 
the  sunshine  streamed  through  your  leaves  and  tipped  my 
pencil  with  gold.  The  birds  singing  in  your  boughs  may 
have  lent  a  sweet  note  here  and  there ;  and  do  you  remember 
the  day  when  the  gentle  shower  came?  We  just  curled 
the  closer,  and  you  and  I,  the  sky,  and  all  cried  together 
while  we  wrote  '  The  Fore-Room  Rug. ' 

"It  should  be  a  lovely  book,  dear  apple-tree,  but  alas, 
it  is  not  altogether  that,  because  I  am  not  so  simple  as  you, 
and  because  I  have  strayed  farther  away  from  the  heart 
of  Mother  Nature. 

"Quillcote,  Hollis,  Maine,  August  12,  1895." 

History  of  the  Union  Jack,  how  it  Grew  and  what  it  Is. 
By  Barlow  Cumberland.     1900. 

"To  the  Flag  itself,  this  story  of  the  Union  Jack  is 
dedicated  with  much  respect  by  one  of  its  sons." 

The  Voice  of  the  Pine.     By  Charles  A.  Schumacher.     1901. 

"There  is  a  pine,  how  my  heart  knows  where! — 
With  hair  all  tangled  by  the  careless  years, 
That  came  a  hundred  gay  and  found  it  there, 
And  laughing  so  had  missed  its  heart  of  tears. 

"I  chanced  that  way,  nor  dreamed  it  sacred  spot. 
But  when  a  voice  came  forth  and  spoke  to  me, 
A  wonder  grew;  and  yet  the  years  heard  not. 
Though  they  had  passed  that  way  for  a  century. 

"And  shall  I  tell  you  what  it  said  to  me? 
Only  this :  Glory  lingers  in  the  West, 
Though  sun  is  gone,  and  sky  bends  close  to  sea 
Forevermore:  and  silence  is  the  rest." 

The  Roadmender.     By  Michael  Fairless.     1902. 

"To  my  Mother;  and  to  Earth,  my  mother,  whom  I  love." 


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History  of  the  German  Struggle  for  Liberty.     By  Poultney 
Bigelow.     1903. 

"To  Caribee,  my  Cruising  Canoe: 

"In  her  I  have  slept  by  night  and  sailed  by  day  for  weeks 
and  months  at  a  time,  exploring  the  beautiful  waterways 
of  the  German  Fatherland.  She  has  made  me  friends  with 
every  kind  of  man, — the  bargee,  the  raftsman,  the  peasant, 
the  wood-chopper,  the  weaver,  the  gendarme,  the  parish 
parson,  the  miller,  the  tax-collector, — and  many  more  of 
the  types  that  make  life  interesting  to  the  contemplative 
traveler.  By  the  aid  of  Caribee  I  learned  to  feel  how 
Germans  feel.  Without  her  this  book  would  not  have 
been  written." 

Sport  on  the  Nilgiris  and  in  Wynaad.    By  F.  W.  Fletcher. 
1911. 

"  TO  MY  .450. 

"Let  lovesick  swains 
In  Cupid's  chains 

Bound  fast,  prate  of  their  blisses, 
And  rave  and  swear 
Naught  can  compare 

With  soft  vows,  sealed  with  kisses. 

"Let  Britons  bold 
The  maxim  hold 

That  cricket's  life  's  elixir; 
No  greater  bliss 
To  them  than  this — 

'Well  hit!     By  Jove,  a  sixer! ' 

"Let  Scots  proclaim 
The  'Royal  Game 

Of  Golf  without  a  rival; 


To  Things,  Animate  and  Inaminate   415 


And  quaff  a  brew 
Of  mountain  Dew 

To  welcome  its  revival. 

"Let  some  opine 
That  joy  divine 

Is  found  in  thee,  Lawn- tennis; 
Pat  ball  at  best, 
And  I  protest 

That  joy  beyond  my  ken  is. 

"But  what  are  these. 
Which  others  please, 

To  us,  who  know  the  measure 
Of  bliss  past  speech 
Which  those  can  reach. 

Who  count  thee  first,  my  treasure. 

"Then  while  kind  Fate 
To  hold  thee  straight 

Gives  me  the  power,  I  '11  stifle 
All  love,  save  love 
Of  thy  bright  groove — 

My  little,  trusty  rifle!" 

The  Unknown  God.    By  B.  L.  Putnam  Weale.     191 1. 

"To  a  pair  of  bright  eyes,  laughing  under  a  green  hat." 

Australia.    Described  by  Frank  Fox.     191 1. 

"To  the  fierce  sun  of  Australia,  which  tempers  men  as 
fire  tempers  steel;  to  the  gracious  sun  of  Australia,  which 
makes  nature  teem  with  bounty;  to  the  glowing  sun  of 
Australia,  which  warms  the  heart,  enkindles  the  eye, 
ruddies  the  cheek,  this  is  a  tribute." 


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Crowds.     By  Gerald  Stanley  Lee.     1913. 

"Gratefully  inscribed  to  a  little  Mountain,  a  great 
Meadow,  and  a  Woman.  To  the  Mountain,  for  the  ^ense 
of  time;  to  the  Meadow,  for  the  sense  of  space;  and  to  the 
Woman  for  the  sense  of  everything." 

A  Primal  Element.     By  C.  M.  Van  Wagenen.     1913.     Un- 
published. 

SONNET 

by 

C.  M.  V.  W. 

Dedicated  to  "Fire" 

"Master  and  Servant!  deadly  Foe  and  Friend, 
Satanic  forces  in  thy  life  contend, 
Love,  hate,  joy,  woe  within  thy  bosom  blend. 

"In  deepest  depths  thou  dost  forever  rage. 
From  mountain  tops  dost  burst  from  age  to  age. 
Titanic  force  no  human  art  may  gauge. 
Destroyer  of  all  life  within  thy  path 
No  human  force  may  e'er  control  thy  wrath. 
Yet  life  itself  doth  on  thy  power  depend 
And  courts  thy  favour  even  to  life's  end. 
While  all  man's  wit  and  wisdom  cry  aloud 
To  draw  thee  from  the  throne  where  thou  dost  dwell 
To  do  him  service  from  the  upper  cloud 
Thy  home,  as  in  thy  subterranean  Hell." 

The  Book  of  Ease.     By  Candace  Wheeler.     1913.    Un- 
published. 

DEDICATION 

**  I  dedicate  this  Book  of  Ease 
To  that  dear  plane  of  comfort — Blessed  Bed: 
Of  all  man's  fine  inventions  most  inspired. 
Most  competent,  most  fitted  to  his  great  mortal  needs. 


4,,: 


I 


To  Things,  Animate  and  Inanimate   417 


It  beckons  him  to  rest,  to  body's  utter  freedom, 
To  sure  surcease  of  care,  and  more  than  all,  to  blessed, 
blessed  sleep. 

"As  the  tired  swimmer  floats  upon  the  sea, 
Its  liquid  rest  fitting  each  curve  and  hollow  of  his  dear 

flesh— 
Or  as  the  wide-winged  bird,  upheld  by  viewless  air, 
Each  fearless  feather  quivering  with  delight, 
So  lieth  one  upon  his  bed  of  ease, 
Thanking  both  God  and  man  for  darkness  and  for  rest." 

The  Carnival  of  Summer.    By  Candace  Wheeler.     1913. 
Unpublished. 

"to  the  meadow  lilies 

"Listen  where  the  lilies  ring 
Joy-bells  out  to  greet  the  king, 
Simimer !     Who  doth  walk  in  state 
Where  the  meadow  blossoms  wait, — 
Where  the  slender  grasses  sway 
Jewel-crowned  at  break  of  day. 

Scarlet  bells,  golden  bells, 

Tender  curving  lily-bells, 

Ring  to  greet  at  break  of  day 

Summer  on  his  kingly  way. 

"Purple  mantle  all  unrolled 
Flecked  with  shadows  green  and  gold, 
Shapes  of  flying  out-stretched  wings. 
Shapes  of  fair  imaginings 
Which  the  slender  sun-beam  weaves 
Under  tender  new-bom  leaves, 
And  the  voice  of  Nature  sings 
And  the  wonder-music  rings. 


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Scarlet  bells,  golden  bells, 
Tender  curving  lily-bells, 
Ring  to  greet  at  break  of  day 
Summer  on  his  kingly  way." 

Australasia.     By  Henry  Clarence  Kendall,     (n.  d.) 

"to  A  MOUNTAIN 

"To  thee,  0  father  of  the  stately  peaks, 
Above  me  in  the  loftier  light — to  thee. 
Imperial  brother  of  those  awful  hills, 
Whose  feet  are  set  in  splendid  spheres  of  flame, 
Whose  heads  are  where  the  gods  are,  and  whose  sides 
Of  strength  are  belted  round  with  all  the  zones — 
Of  all  the  world,  I  dedicate  these  songs." 

Other  verses  follow. 

When  I  'm  A  Man.     By  Alice  Weber,     (n.  d.) 

"To  Ethel  and  Maimie,  and  a  certain  arm-chair." 

It  would  have  been  interesting  to  add  to  this  chapter  a  dedica- 
tion to  water — to  a  lake,  river,  or  the  like;  but  such  a  dedication, 
after  much  search,  has  not  yet  come  to  light.  The  nearest  approach 
to  it  is  in  the  Foreword  to  Emma  S.  Carter's  Lays  of  the  Lake: 

"They  were  wise,  those  ancients,  who  built  their  altars  at  the 
sources  of  the  rivers,  where  the  rill  gurgled  forth  from  the  rock, 
like  that  slender,  trickling  stream  of  Castalia  that  slips  so  silently 
through  the  crevices  of  the  mysterious  mountain  to  its  quiet  pool 
below  the  temple  at  Delphi.  They  recognized  the  source  of  things. 
For  the  same  reason,  I  send  forth  my  little  verses  from  the  Lake- 
side where  so  many  of  them  were  written,  to  trickle,  perhaps,  a 
little  way,  and  then  to  rest  in  some  quiet  pool  of  memory,  reflect- 
ing still  these  shores  to  hearts  that  love  them. — Mohonk  Lake,  1910." 


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Uo  tbe  IReaOer 

The  Golden  Age.    By  Thomas  Heywood.     1611. 

"To  the  Reader. 

"This  Play  coming  accidentally  to  the  Press,  and  at 
length  having  notice  thereof,  I  was  loth  (finding  it  mine 
own)  to  see  it  thrust  naked  into  the  world,  to  abide  the 
fury  of  all  weathers,  without  either  Title  for  acknowledg- 
ment, or  the  formality  of  an  Epistle  for  ornament.  There- 
fore, rather  to  keep  custom,  than  any  necessity,  I  have 
fixed  these  few  lines  in  the  front  of  my  book;  neither  to 
approve  it,  as  tasteful  to  every  palate,  nor  to  disgrace  it,  as 
able  to  relish  none;  only  to  commit  it  freely  to  the  general 
censure  of  Readers,  as  it  hath  already  passed  the  approba- 
tion of  Auditors.  This  is  the  Golden  Age,  the  eldest 
brother  of  three  Ages,  that  have  adventured  the  Stage, 
but  the  only  yet,  that  hath  been  judged  to  the  Press.  As 
this  is  received,  so  you  shall  find  the  rest;  either  fearful 
further  to  proceed,  or  encouraged  boldly  to  follow. 

"Yours  ever, 

"T.  H." 

Queen  Anna's  New  World  of  Words:  A  Dictionarie  of  the 
Italian  and  English  Tongues.     By  John  Florio.     161 1. 

"  To  all  Readers. 

"  To  be  Reader,  requires  understanding ;  to  be  a  criticke, 
judgment.     A  Dictionarie  gives  armes  to  that  and  takes 

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no  harme  of  this,  if  it  mistake  not.     I  wish  thee  both,  but 
feare  neither,  for  I  still  rest 

"Resolute  John  Florio.' 

(Part  of  this  dedication  is  quoted  by  Wheatley  in  his  Dedication  of 
Books.) 

The  New  Inn :  or  the  Light  Heart,  a  Comedy,  As  It  Was 
Never  Acted,  but  Most  Negligently  Played  by  Some, 
the  Bang's  Servants;  and  More  Squeamishly  Beheld 
and  Censur'd  by  Others,  the  King's  Subjects,  1629. 
Now  at  Last  Set  at  Liberty  to  the  Readers,  His  Majesty's 
Servants  and  Subjects,  to  Be  Judg'd  of.  By  Ben  Jonson. 
1631. 

"To  the  Reader. 

"If  thou  be  such,  I  make  thee  my  patron,  and  dedicate 
the  piece  to  thee:  if  not  so  much,  would  I  had  been  at  the 
charge  of  thy  better  literature.  Howsoever,  if  thou  canst 
but  spell,  and  join  my  sense,  there  is  more  hope  of  thee, 
than  of  a  hundred  fast  d  ous  impertinents,  who  were  there 
present  the  first  day,  yet  never  made  piece  of  the  prospect 
the  right  way.  What  did  they  come  for  then?  thou  wilt 
ask  me.  I  will  as  punctually  answer:  To  see,  and  to  be 
seen;  to  make  a  general  muster  of  themselves  in  their 
clothes  of  credit;  and  possess  the  stage  against  the  play; 
to  dislike  all,  but  mark  nothing.  And  by  their  confidence 
of  rising  between  the  acts,  in  oblique  lines,  make  affidavit 
to  the  whole  house,  of  their  not  understanding  one  scene. 
Armed  with  this  prejudice,  as  the  stage-furniture,  or  arras- 
clothes,  they  were  there,  as  spectators,  away :  for  the  faces 
in  the  hangings,  and  they,  beheld  alike.  So  I  wish  they 
may  do  ever;  and  do  trust  myself  and  my  book,  rather  to 
thy  rustic  candour,  than  all  the  pomp  of  their  pride,  and 
solemn  ignorance  to  boot.  Fare  thee  well,  and  fall  to.    Read. 

"Ben  Jonson." 

The  New  Inn  was  damned  on  its  first  appearance,  not  being  heard 
to  its  conclusion.  Jonson's  chagrin  expressed  itself  not  only  in 
this  dedication,  but  in  the  Ode  to  Himself,  written  after  the  failure 
of  the  play: 


To  the  Reader  423 


"Come  leave  the  loathed  Stage, 

And  the  more  loathsome  age; 
Where  Pride  and  Impudence,  in  faction  knit, 

Usurp  the  chair  of  Wit! 
Indicting  and  arraigning  every  day, 

Something  they  call  a  play. 

Let  their  fastidious,  vain 

Commission  of  the  brain 
Run  on  and  rage,  sweat,  censure,  and  condemn; 
They  were  not  made  for  thee,  less  thou  for  them,"  etc. 

History  of  the  Civil  Wars  of  England  between  the  Two 
Houses  of  Lancaster  and  York.  Translated  from  the 
Italian  of  Biondi  by  Henry,  Earl  of  Monmouth.     1641. 

"To  the  readers,  my  countrymen: 

"That  translations  are  at  the  best  but  like  the  wrong 
side  of  Hangings,  is  granted.  Yet  he  who  cannot  get  to 
see  the  right  side,  may  by  the  other  guess  at  the  story 
therein  represented.  This  of  mine  may  yet  seem  to  be  of  a 
worse  condition;  as  only  the  reducing  back  to  our  own 
language  that  which  hath  been  collected  from  our  home 
stories,  and  published  in  a  foreign  tongue;  so  as  it  may 
almost  be  termed  the  turning  into  EngHsh,  what  was 
turned  out  of  English.  But  the  author  hath  had  his  end: 
the  making  the  valour  and  honour  of  our  kingdom  known 
to  his  own  countrymen;  for  which  we  owe  him  a  national 
thanks.  I  have  chosen  this  way  to  pay  mine,  by  affording 
you  all  a  means  how  to  acknowledge  yours,  and  thus  I  have 
part  of  my  end  likewise.  The  remainder  being  my  observ- 
ance of  his  desires  and  the  shunning  of  spending  my  time 
worse.  The  Italian  saith,  'Chi  non  quel  che  voule,  quel 
che  puo  voglia.  *  If  I  could  coin  anything  out  of  my  own 
brain,  worthy  of  my  countrymen,  they  should  have  it :  since 
not,  let  them  accept  of  this  piece  of  gold  changed  into  silver, 
and  therein  of  the  good  will  of  their  compatriot, 

"Monmouth."    ; 

Five  New  Playes.    By  Richard  Brome.     1653. 

"Beloved, — Being  to  write  to  a  multitude  of  you  (for  I 


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know  you  will  be  many)  I  forbear  Epithets^  because  the 
same  will  not  fit  all ;  and  I  hate  to  make  difference  among 
Friends.  I  have  often  considered  with  myselfe,  whether 
I  were  best  to  Dedicate  this  Booke  or  no;  and  I  have 
thought  on  the  maine  ends  of  Dedications,  which  I  finde 
generally  to  be  Flattery  or  Want.  To  the  one  my  nature 
was  ever  averse:  And  (were  my  Debts  all  payd  to  me  and 
by  me)  I  should  not  be  much  concerned  in  the  other.  As 
for  the  two  ordinary  pretences,  namely.  Gratitude  or  Patron- 
age, like  Religion  and  Liberty,  they  are  made  but  the  Vizors 
to  somewhat  else.  For  is  it  not  a  high  peice  of  Gratitude, 
when  an  Author  has  received  favours  as  Meccenas,  to 
requite  him  with  a  Booke;  and  to  take,  or  expect,  two  or 
three  Peices  from  him  for  it,  when  another  man  shall  buy 
the  same  Booke  of  the  thriving  Stationers  for  half  a  Crowne? 
And  for  Patronage  or  Protection,  I  would  faine  know,  if  an 
Author  writes  like  a  Cockscomhe  whether  any  Patron  can 
protect  him  from  being  laught  at.  And  he  that  writes  well, 
makes  everyone  his  Patron  without  a  Dedication. 

"But  in  Epistles  of  this  nature,  something  is  usually 
begg'd;  and  I  would  do  so  too,  but,  I  vow,  am  puzzled  what. 
'Tis  not  acceptance,  for  then  you'le  expect  I  should  give 
it;  'tis  not  Money,  for  then  I  shou'd  loose  my  labour;  'tis 
not  praise,  for  the  Author  bid  me  tell  you,  that  now  he  is 
dead,  he  is  of  Falstaffs  minde,  and  cares  not  for  Honour; 
'tis  not  pardon,  for  that  supposes  a  fault,  which  (I  beleeve) 
you  cannot  finde.  But,  if  you'le  know  what  it  is,  it  is 
that  you  would  expect  nothing  else  of  Preface  or  Apologie, 
from  yours,  as  his  owne, 

"A.  Brome." 

Alexander  Brome  published  the  plays  of  his  brother,  after  the 
latter's  death. 

Life's  Painter  of  Variegated  Characters  in  Public   and 
Private  Life.     By  George  Parker.     1789. 

"To    the    Right    Honourable    and    Truly    Respectable 


To  the  Reader  425 


Subscribers  of  every  Denomination  throughout  the  Three 
Kingdoms,  and  Principality  of  Wales: 

"That  very  distinguished  moralist  Doctor  Young,  whose 
philanthropy  and  knowledge  of  mankind  must  be  equally 
venerated  and  admired,  has  left  the  following  maxim, 
composed  of  very  emphatic  Truth :  '  He '  (says  the  doctor) 
'that  is  ungrateful,  has  no  vice  but  one;  all  other  vices  may 
seem  virtues  in  him. ' 

"It  is  nether  my  plan,  nor  my  province;  to  morahse 
sententiously,  but  rather  to  place  my  readers  in  Rabelais' s 
easy  chair,  or  on  the  laughable  couch  of  whimsical  Scarron," 
etc. 

Women  of  the  Bible.     By  Bishop  Jonathan  Wainwright. 

(C.  1850.) 

"To  thoughtful  readers,  men  as  well  as  women,  the  one 
being  interested  equally  with  the  other  in  what  constitutes 
the  character  of  mother,  wife,  daughter,  sister,  this  book 
of  female  portraits  drawn  from  the  highest  and  holiest 
record  of  life  is  dedicated. 

"J.  M.  Wainwright." 

King  Solomon's  Mines.     By  H.  Rider  Haggard.     1885. 

"This  faithful,  but  unpretending  record  of  a  remarkable 
adventure  is  hereby  respectfully  dedicated  by  the  narrator, 
Allan  Quarterman,  to  all  the  big  and  little  boys  who  read  it." 

Handbook  for  Travellers. — Southern  Germany  and  Austria. 
By  Karl  Baedeker.     1891. 

"'Go,  litt  e  book,  God  send  thee  good  passage, 
And  specially  let  this  be  thy  prayere. 
Unto  them  all  that  thee  will  read  or  hear, 
Where  thou  art  wrong,  after  their  help  to  call. 
Thee  to  correct  in  any  part  or  all. ' " 


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Raymund  Lull,  First  Missionary  to  the   Moslems.     By 
Samuel  M.  Zwemer,  D.D.,  F.R.G.S.     New  York,  1902. 

"To  the  Reader: 

"  'Who  faulteth  not,  liveth  not;  who  mendeth  faults  is 
commended:  The  Printer  hath  faulted  a  little:  it  may  be 
the  author  over-sighted  more.  Thy  paine  (Reader)  is  the 
least;  then  erre  not  thou  most  by  misconstruing  or  sharpe 
censuring;  least  thou  be  more  onchari table,  then  either  of 
them  hath  been  heedlesse:  God  amend  and  guide  us  all.' 
"...  Robartes  on  Tythes,  Camb.  1613." 

It  is  often  very  diflScult  to  draw  the  line  between  true  dedications 
to  the  reader,  and  a  mere  prefatory  address,  often  containing  (as 
in  this  dedication  and  that  immediately  preceding)  a  request  for 
charitable  correction  of  error.  Of  all  forms  of  dedication,  that  to 
the  reader  approaches  most  nearly^the  ordinary  author's  Preface. 


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The  Gull's  Horn-Book.    By  Thomas  Dekker.     1609. 

"To  all  Gulls  in  general,  Wealth  and  Liberty: 
"Whom  can  I  choose,  my  most  worthy  Maecen-asses,  to 
be  patrons  to  this  labour  of  mine  fitter  than  yourselves? 
Your  hands  are  ever  open,  your  purses  never  shut;  so  that 
you  stand  not  in  the  common  rank  of  dry-fisted  patrons 
who  give  nothing,  for  you  give  all.  .  .  .  Who  is  more 
liberal  than  you?  Who,  but  only  citizens,  are  more  free? 
Blame  me  not,  therefore,  if  I  pick  you  out  from  the  bunch  of 
booktakers,  to  consecrate  these  fruits  of  my  brain,  which 
shall  never  die,  only  to  you.  I  know  that  most  of  you,  O 
admirable  Gulls!  can  neither  write  nor  read.  A  Horn- 
book have  I  invented,  because  I  would  have  you  well 
schooled.  Paul's  is  your  walk,  but  this  your  guide:  if  it 
lead  you  right,  thank  me;  if  astray,  men  will  bear  with 
your  errors,  because  you  are  Gulls.     Farewell, 

"T.  D." 

The  "gull,"  well-known  in  Elizabethan  literature,  has  been 
defined  as  "a  boor,  posing  as  a  wit,  a  fool  qualifying  for  a  sharper." 
The  ironical  tone  of  Dekker's  dedication  is  in  keeping  with  that 
of  the  whole  treatise,  which  contains  rules  for  the  gull's  conduct, 
designed  to  increase  his  ofifensiveness  to  the  highest  degree.  At 
the  playhouse,  for  instance,  where  he  has  a  seat  upon  the  stage,  he 
is  to  behave  after  this  manner:  "If  the  writer  be  a  fellow  that  hath 
either  epigrammed  you,  or  hath  had  a  flirt  at  your  mistress,  or 
hath  brought  either  your  feather,  or  your  red  beard,  or  your  little 
legs,  etc.,  on  the  stage:  you  shall  disgrace  him  worse  than  by  tossing 
him  in  a  blanket,  or  giving  him  the  bastinado  in  a  tavern,  if,  in  the 

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middle  of  his  play,  be  it  pastoral  or  comedy,  moral  or  tragedy, 
you  rise  with  a  screwed  and  discontented  face  from  your  stool  to 
be  gone;  no  matter  whether  the  scenes  be  good,  or  no;  the  better 
they  are,  the  worse  do  you  distaste  them;  and,  being  on  your  feet, 
sneak  not  away  like  a  coward;  but  salute  all  your  gentle  acquaint- 
ance, that  are  spread  either  on  the  rushes,  or  on  stools  about  you; 
and  draw  what  troop  you  can  from  the  stage  after  you ;  the  mimics 
are  beholden  to  you  for  allowing  them  elbow-room;  their  poet 
cries,  perhaps,  'a  pox  go  with  you;'  but  care  not  you  for  that; 
there  's  no  music  without  frets." 

The  Ravens  Almanacke.    By  Thomas  Dekker.     1609. 

"To  the  Lyons  of  the  Wood  (the  young  Courtiers),  to 
the  wilde  Buckes  of  the  Forest  (the  Gallants  and  younger 
Brothers),  to  the  Harts  of  the  Field,  and  to  all  the  whole 
Countrey,  that  are  brought  up  wisely,  yet  prove  Gulls; 
and  are  born  riche,  yet  die  beggers:  the  new  English  Astro- 
loger dedicateth  his  Ravens  Almanacke." 
A  long  satirical  address  follows. 

Scourge   of   Drunkenness.     By   William   Hornby.     1614. 
(Published  1859,  edited  by  J.  O.  Halliwell). 

"To  all  the  impious  and  relentlesse-hearted  ruffians  and 
roysters  under  Bacchus  regiment:  Comu-apes  wisheth 
remorse  of  conscience  and  more  increase  of  grace." 

The  author  was  a  reformed  drunkard.  The  poem  he  calls 
"his  farewell  to  Folly,  or  his  Metamorphosis,  wherein  he  doth  shew 
his  unfeigned  hatred  to  evill  company,  such  as  be  drunkards, 
swearers,  and  such  like." 

The  Martyrdom  of  St.  George  of  Cappadocia.     (Attributed 
to  Tristram  White.)     16 14. 

"To  all  the  noble,  honourable  and  worthy  in  Great 
Britaine,  bearing  the  name  of  George;  and  to  all  other,  the 
true  friends  of  Christian  Chivalrie,  lovers  of  St.  George's 
name  and  vertues." 

(Quoted  from  Wheatley's  Dedication  of  Books.) 


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Strappado  for  the  Divell.     By  Richard  Brathwaite.     161 5. 

"To  all  usurers,  breakers, and  promoters,  sergeants, catch- 
poles  and  regraters,  ushers,  panders,  surburbes  traders, 
cockneies  that  have  manie  fathers;  ladies,  monkeys,  para- 
chitoes,  marmosites  and  catomitoes,  monchatoes,  grave 
gregorians  and  shee-painters — send  greeting  at  adventures, 
and  to  all  such  as  be  evill,  my  Strappado  for  the  Divell.'' 

(Quoted  from  Wheatley's  Dedication  of  Books.) 


Cynthia's  Revels  or  the  Fountayne  of  Selfe-Love.     Ben 
Jonson.     1616. 

"TotheSpeciall 

"  Fountaine  of  Manners, — 
"  The  Court. 
"Thou  art  a  bountifull,  and  brave  spring:  and  waterest 
all  the  noble  plants  of  this  Hand.  In  thee,  the  whole 
Kingdome  dresseth  itselfe,  and  is  ambitious  to  use  thee  as 
her  glasse.  Beware,  then,  thou  render  mens'  figures  trul}', 
and  teach  them  no  lesse  to  hate  their  deformities,  than  to 
love  their  formes.  For,  to  grace,  there  should  come  rever- 
ence; and  no  man  can  call  that  lovely,  which  is  not  also 
venerable.  It  is  not  powd'ring,  perfuming,  and  every 
day  smelling  of  the  taylor,  that  converteth  to  a  beautiful 
object:  but  a  mind,  shining  through  any  sute,  which  needs 
no  false  light,  either  of  riches,  or  honours,  to  help  it.  Such 
shalt  thou  find  some  here,  even  in  the  raigne  of  Cynthia 
(a  Crites,  and  an  Arete).  Now,  under  thy  Phoebus,  it 
will  be  thy  prouince  to  make  more:  Except  thou  desirest 
to  have  thy  source  mixe  with  the  Spring  of  selfe-loue  and 
so  wilt  draw  upon  thee  as  welcome  a  discouvery  of  thy 
dayes,  as  was  then  made  of  her  nights. 

"  Thy  servant,  but  not  slave, 

"Ben  Jonson." 


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Et   Habeo,  et  Careo,  et  Curo,  a  Poem.     By  John  Taylor 
("  The  water  Poet.").     1621. 

"to  everybody 

"Yet not  to  every  Reader,  doe  I  write 
But  onely  unto  such  as  can  Read  right: 
And  with  impartial  censures  can  declare 
As  they  find  things  to  judge  them  as  they  are." 

Toys  of  Childhood  and  Tricks  of  Genius.     By  Francisco 
de  Quevedo  Villegas.     Seville,  1641. 

DEDICATION 

"To  no  person  of  all  whom  God  created  on  earth.  I 
have  considered  that  all  writers  dedicate  their  books  with 
two  purposes,  which  are  seldom  separated:  one  that  such 
person  should  aid  the  publication  with  his  blessed  alms- 
giving; the  other,  that  he  should  shield  the  work  from 
critics.  I  consider  (having  been  a  critic  myself  for  many 
years)  that  this  serves  to  restrain  only  two  of  those  who 
criticise :  the  fool  who  is  persuaded  that  the  critics  have  some 
reason  to  swear;  and  the  presumptuous  one  who  pays  his 
money  for  this  flattery.  I  have  determined  to  write  helter- 
skelter  and  to  dedicate  my  book  to  fools  and  idiots,  and 
let  happen  what  may.  Who  buys  it  and  criticises  it  makes 
a  fool  of  himself,  that  he  has  spent  his  money  badly,  rather 
than  of  the  author,  who  has  made  him  spend  it  badly.  Let 
the  Maecenases  say  and  do  what  they  will,  as  I  have  never 
seen  them  in  the  attitude  of  smiting  critics,  or  paying  any 
attention  to  what  they  say.  I  do  see  them  very  pacific  in 
the  matter  of  protection,  denying  all  calumnies  to  their 
vassals,  and  never  threatening  a  duel  over  the  book.  But 
I  have  preferred  to  venture  rather  than  to  be  deceived. 
Let  everybody  do  as  they  please  about  my  book,  since  I 
have  said  what  I  wished  about  everybody.  Good-bye, 
Mascenas,  I  take  leave  of  dedications." 


To  Any  and  Every  One  433 


Chronological  Abridgement  or  Extract  of  the  History  of 
France.     By  Frang ois  Eudes  de  Mezeray.     1676. 

"To  posterity,  for  the  perpetual  glory  of  the  triumphant 
reign  of  Louis  the  Great,  most  Christian  King,  always 
victorious,  always  august,  who  commenced  to  conquer  as 
soon  as  to  reign,  who  by  his  clemency  has  given  tranquility 
to  France,  and  by  his  justice  wills  to  give  peace  to  all  Europe : 
Who,  by  the  terror  of  his  arms,  has  put  to  flight  all  those 
unfaithful  to  Christianity,  and  subdued  in  all  places,  on 
land  and  on  sea,  the  enemies  of  his  State  and  of  his  glory: 
Who,  by  his  wisdom,  has  restored  order  among  the  guards, 
in  the  finances,  and  in  the  laws,  and  Who,  by  his  munificence 
has  raised  the  sciences  and  the  fine  arts  to  their  perfection. 
Heaven  grant  that  his  conquests  may  extend  as  far  as  his 
renown ;  that  the  number  of  his  years  may  equal  that  of  his 
victories;  and  that  the  welfare  of  our  Empire  may  be  the 
happiness  of  all  the  people  of  the  earth." 

Matthew  Prior  wrote  certain  well-known  verses,  of  which  Sir 
Walter  Scott  was  a  great  admirer, — "  In  the  beginning  of  Mezeray 's 
History  of  France": 

"Whate'er  thy  countrymen  have  done, 
By  law  and  wit,  by  sword  and  gun, 
In  thee  is  faithfully  recited; 
And  all  the  living  world  that  view 
Thy  work,  give  thee  the  praises  due. 
At  once  instructed  and  delighted. 

"Yet  for  the  fame  of  all  these  deeds, 
What  beggar  in  the  Invalides, 
With  lameness  broke,  with  blindness  smitten, 
Wished  ever  decently  to  die, 
To  have  been  either  Mezeray, 
Or  any  monarch  he  has  written,"  etc. 

The  No-Dedication.     Composed  by  William  Hogarth  for 
a  History  of  the  Acts,  which  he  never  Completed. 

"The  No- Dedication,  not   dedicated    to   any  prince  in 
Christendom,  for  fear  it  might  be  thought  an  idle  piece  of 
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arrogance,  not  dedicated  to  any  man  of  quality,  for  fear 
it  might  be  thought  too  assuming;  not  dedicated  to  any 
learned  body  of  men,  as  either  of  the  Universities  or  the 
Royal  Society,  for  fear  it  might  be  thought  an  uncommon 
piece  of  vanity ;  nor  dedicated  to  any  one  particular  friend, 
for  fear  of  offending  another ;  therefore  dedicated  to  nobody ; 
but  if  for  once  we  may  suppose  nobody  to  be  everybody, 
as  everybody  is  often  said  to  be  nobody,  then  this  work  is 
dedicated  to  everybody. 

"By  their  most  humble  and  devoted, 

"William  Hogarth." 


(Quoted  from  Wheatley's  Dedication  oj  Books.) 


Modern  Painters.     By  John  Ruskin.     1843. 

"  To  the  landscape  artists  of  England  this  work  is  respect- 
fully dedicated  by  their  sincere  admirer  the  author." 


The  Proverbialist  and  the  Poet.    By  James  Orton.     1852. 

"To  the  lovers  of  Sense-Shortness,  and  Salt,  this  work 
is  respectfully  inscribed." 

A  Poetical  Cook  Book.    By  Maria  J.  Moss.     1864. 

" '  What 's  imder  this  cover? 
For  Cookery  's  a  secret?' — Moore. 
"When  I  wrote  the  following  pages,  some  years  back  at 
Oak  Lodge,  as  a  pastime,  I  did  not  think  it  would  be  of 
service  to  my  fellow-creatures,  for  our  suffering  soldiers, 
the  sick,  wounded,  and  needy,  who  have  so  nobly  fought 
our  Country's  cause,  to  maintain  the  flag  of  our  great 
Republic,  and  to  prove  among  Nat  ons  that  a  Free  Republic 
is  not  a  Myth.  With  these  few  words,  I  dedicate  this  book 
to  the  Sanitary  Fair  to  be  held  in  Philadelphia,  June,  1864," 


To  Any  and  Every  One  435 

My  Record  in  Rebeldom,  as  Written  by  Friend  and  Foe. 
By  Lieutenant-Colonel  James  Monroe  Sanderson.     1865. 

"To  my  enemies  and  my  Itike-warm 
Friends,  I  dedicate  this  book. 
To  the  first, 
acknowledging  my  indebtedness. 
To  the  last. 
That  I  may  prove  how  little  I  owe  them. 
The  former, 
by  their  persistence  in  falsehood,  and  industry  in  wrong- 
doing, have  extorted  my  special  wonder. 
The  latter, 
by   their  tmbecoming  reticence   and  ungenerous   silence, 
are  entitled  to  my  undisgtiised  contempt. 
To  the  one, 
I  tender  my  thanks  for  the  substantial  triumph 
they  have  afforded  me. 
To  the  other. 
My  regrets  that  they  have  proven  false  to  themselves. 
And  to  both, 
My  congratulations  that  they  have  failed  alike  in  their 
active  and  passive  injustice,  in  their  positive  and 
negative  wrong. 
"Brooklyn,  November,  1865." 

Miles  Standish.     By  John  S.  C.  Abbott.     1872. 

"To  the  descendants  of  Captain  Miles  Standish,  now 
numbering  thousands,  this  volume  is  respectfully  inscribed; 
with  the  hope  that  no  one  of  them  may  ever  dim  the  lustre 
of  that  name,  to  which  the  virtues  of  their  distinguished 
ancestor  have  attached  imperishable  renown." 

Helen's  Babies.  Some  Account  of  their  Ways,  Innocent, 
Crafty,  Angelic,  Impish,  Witching,  and  Repulsive.  By 
John  Habberton.     1876. 

"Everyone  knows  that  there  are   in  the  United  States 


436  Dedications 


hundreds  of  thousands  of  fathers  and  mothers,  each  one 
of  whom  possesses  the  best  children  that  ever  Hved.  I  am, 
therefore,  moved  by  a  sense  of  the  eternal  fitness  of  things 
to  dedicate  this  little  volume  to  the  Parents  of  the  Best 
Children  in  the  World,  with  the  reminder  that  it  is  con- 
sidered the  proper  thing  for  each  person  to  whom  a  book 
is  dedicated  to  purchase  and  read  a  copy." 

Rowlandson  the  Caricaturist.     By  Joseph  Grego.     1880. 

"  Dedicated  to  all  lovers  of  humor." 

Andalusian    Scenes.     By    Serafin    Estebanez    Calderon. 
1883. 

"Dedication  to  All  Concerned. 

"There  is  often  related  by  tellers  of  tales  a  story  curious 
enough,  which  it  is  more  appropriate  that  we  should  place 
here  in  the  beginning  than  at  the  end  of  this  little  book. 
It  is  told,  then,  that  among  the  many  who  have  agitated 
themselves  in  Andalusia,  there  was  in  Granada  a  certain 
poet  with  the  most  clever  mania  that  can  be  imagined.  He 
composed  considerable  with  much  inspiration.  With 
something  of  vanity  (a  weakness  of  the  calling)  he  sought 
neither  Maecenas  nor  readers.  With  an  excess  of  laziness, 
fruit  of  such  trees,  he  did  not  wish  to  write  or  correct. 
Being  very  poor,  an  inseparable  condition  of  the  profession, 
he  could  not  know  exactly  whether  his  inspirations  merited 
the  name  of  verses  or  the  fresh  qualification  of  Verzas.  In 
order  to  emerge  from  so  many  and  such  diverse  thoughts, 
a  certain  admirable  course  presented  itself  to  his  imagina- 
tion, which  he  at  once  reduced  to  practice.  He  stuck  his 
head  out  of  the  window  of  the  shack  he  inhabited  in  the 
suburbs  of  the  Moorish  city  and,  now  in  the  first  hours  of 
the  morning,  now  in  the  reposeful  hours  of  the  siesta, 
inevitably  and  daily  his  voice  sounded  forth  with  an  accent, 
now  dithyrambic,  now  serious,  now  cunning  and  mis- 
chievous, giving  vent  thus  to  the  caprices  and  inspirations  of 


To  Any  and  Every  One  437 


his  muse,  without  announcement  to  any  one,  without  notice 
to  the  pubHc,  and  without  a  message  of  prevention  or  of 
invitation  to  any  living  creature.  Soon,  out  of  curiosity, 
some  listeners  gathered,  washer- women,  soldiers,  wool- 
carders,  tradesmen,  some  students  and  some  festal  spirits, 
although  of  small  importance.  Well  might  our  man,  half 
madman,  half  poet,  have  wished  to  see  the  quality  of  his 
audience  improve,  now  that  in  respect  to  quantity  he  had 
some  encouragement;  but,  considering  that  the  remedy 
was  not  in  his  hand,  and  by  the  rule  that  there  is  no  consola- 
tion in  this  world  except  that  born  of  conceit,  he  said  one 
day,  half  contented,  half  boastful:  'At  last  I  have  an 
audience,  and  an  audience  of  Spaniards. ' 

"I  also,  peeping  occasionally  from  my  window  of  old 
rags,  beating  and  gesticulating  with  a  flambent  treatise, 
if  I  find  myself  with  an  audience  wearing  leather  belts  with 
pistols  and  other  characteristics  of  the  Spaniard  in  their 
inclinations  and  tastes,  such  as  belong  to  the  b\ill-slayers, 
horse-trainers,  terrifiers  of  men,  singers,  dancers,  highway- 
men and  more  than  I  know,  those  of  boots  and  leggings  as 
of  mantillas  and  petticoats,  I  also,  as  if  I  spoke  with  the 
best  and  most  elegant  readers  and  hearers  on  earth,  will 
exclaim  with  tones  of  vanity  and  pride:  'At  last  and  as  a 
crown  I  have  an  audience,  and  an  audience  of  Spaniards.' 

"If  thou,  who  listenest  or  readest,  O  candid  hearer  or 
pious  reader,  shoiildst  not  be  one  of  the  above-named 
classes,  attend  to  what  I  say:  before  cursing  me  or  laying 
me  aside,  which  is  much  worse,  stop  and  do  justice  to 
Triana  of  Seville,  Mercadillo  of  Ronda,  Percheles  of 
Malaga,  Campillo  of  Granada,  the  low  districts  of  Madrid, 
Vina  de  Cadiz,  Santa  Marina  of  Cordoba,  the  walls  of 
Carthage,  Rochapea  of  Pamplona,  San  Pablo  of  Zaragosa, 
and  other  parts  where  Spain  lives  and  reigns,  without  a 
mixture  or  cross  of  any  foreign  heresy.  Then,  if  thou  dost 
not  read  me  with  something  of  appetite  and  relish,  give 
thyself  over  as  condemned  and  apostate  in  Spanish  matters. 


438  Dedications 


as  for  thee  there  is  no  redemption  and  thou  art  excommuni- 
cated by  the  utmost  sentence.  If,  on  the  other  hand,  in 
this  gentle  and  saintly  company  thou  hast  learned  now,  or 
hast  recalled  what  should  never  be  forgotten,  which  thou 
wast  compelled  to  know  by  memory  from  thy  early  youth, 
hold  thyself  absolved,  and  enter  and  be  counted  among  the 
flock  and  fold  of  good  and  legitimate  people,  and  take 
comfort  and  pleasure  with  me,  thou  reading  and  I  relating 
those  unparalleled  scenes,  those  characteristically  Spanish 
deeds  of  generosity  and  gallantry  which  manifest  as  much 
gentleness  in  the  person  as  they  reveal  strength  of  character. 
If  thou  art  of  these,  receive  the  rite  of  adoption  and  my 
patriarchal  blessing,  and  may  heaven  grant  that  thou  livest 
more  years  than  the  Constitution  of  1845. 
"Madrid,  1883." 

The  Violin.    By  George  Hart.     1884. 

"Inscribed  to  the  admirers  of  the  leading  instrument  at 
home  and  abroad." 

Three  Years  of  Arctic  Service:  An  Account  of  the  Lady 
Franklin  Bay  Expedition.  By  Adolphus  W.  Greely. 
1886. 

'To  the  Lady  Franklin  Bay  Expedition  these  volumes 
are  dedicated :  to  its  dead  who  suffered  much — to  its  living 
who  suffered  more.  Their  energy  accomplished  the  Farth- 
est North;  their  fidelity  wrought  out  success,  their  courage 
faced  death  undauntedly;  their  loyalty  and  discipline  in 
all  the  dark  days  ensured  that  this  record  of  their  services 
should  be  given  to  the  world." 

The  Gentle  Art  of  Making  Enemies.  By  James  Abbott 
McNeill  Whistler.     1890. 

"To  the  rare  Few,  who,  early  in  life,  have  rid  themselves 
of  the  Friendship  of  the  Many,  these  pathetic  Papers  are 
inscribed." 


To  Any  and  Every  One  439 


From  the  Books  of  Laurence  Hutton.     1892. 

"To  Charles  B.  Foote,  and  Beverly  Chew,  book-lovers 
both — this  book  about  books." 

The  Children  of  the  King.    By  F.  Marion  Crawford.     1893. 

"To  the  Middy,  the  Laddie,  the  Mate,  and  the  Men, 
the  Skipper  of  the  old  'Leone'  dedicates  this  story." 

Ideal    Suggestion    through     Mental     Photography.      By 
Henry  Wood.     1893. 

"Fraternally  dedicated  to  all  seekers  for  Truth,  with 
whom  it  stands  above  Sect,  System,  or  Conventionality." 

Industry  and  Property.     By  George  Brooks.     1895. 

"To  the  free  and  independent  workingmen  of  the  United 
Kingdom  of  Great  Britain  and  Ireland,  and  to  employers 
and  employed  throughout  the  civilized  world,  the  present 
edition  of  this  work  is  respectfully  dedicated  by  their  sin- 
cere friend  and  fellow-worker,  the  Author." 

A  Social  Departure.    By  Sara  Jeannette  Duncan.     1895. 

"This  volume,  as  a  slight  tribute  to  the  unimportance  of 
her  opinion  and  a  humble  mark  of  profoundest  esteem,  is 
respectfully  dedicated  to  Mrs.  Grundy." 

Pony  Tracks.     By  Frederic  Remington.     1895. 

"This  book  is  dedicated  to  the  fellows  who  rode  the 
ponies  that  made  the  tracks,  by  the  Author," 

Sweetheart  Travellers.     By  Samuel  Rutherford  Crockett. 
1896. 

"Dedicated  to  all  who  have  sweethearts  of  their  own, 
and  to  those  others  who  only  wish  they  had." 


440  Dedications 


Small  Helps  for  To-Day.  Selected  and  Arranged  by 
Imogen  Clark.     1899. 

"To  all  who  would  make  to-day  better  than  yesterday 
and  a  stepping-stone  unto  a  still  better  to-morrow,  these 
'small  helps'  are  affectionately  dedicated." 

Souls  in  Pawn.     By  Margaret  Blake  Robinson.     1900. 

"To  my  friends,  my  readers,  my  critics, — those  present 
and  to  come,  as  well  as  to  those  who  will  taste  my  doctrine 
and  label  it  as  no  good  thing  shall  be  labelled, — to  these 
four  I  dedicate  Souls  in  Pawn  as  a  mark  of  my  affection 
and  esteem,  and  as  a  proof  of  my  impartiality." 

The  Trail  of  the  Sandhill  Stag.  By  Ernest  Thompson 
Seton.     1900. 

"This  book  is  dedicated  to  the  Old  Timers  of  the  Big 
Plain  of  Manitoba." 

The  Salt  Box  House.     By  Jane  De  Forest  Shelton.     1900. 

"  In  honor  of  the  long  ago,  and  to  those  who,  pass  ng  an 
old  highway,  see  the  signs  written  on  moss-covered  fences, 
in  traces  of  old  door  yards,  by  lone-standing  chimneys,  and 
would  know  the  interpretation  thereof,  to  those  whose 
pulses  are  stirred  as  they  stand  beneath  the  long  sloping 
roofs,  and  whose  hearts  bow  reverently  as  they  read  the 
records  on  the  gravestones  of  the  seventeen  hundreds,  this 
book  is  inscribed." 

The  Lawson  History  of  the  Americans  Cup.  A  Record  of 
Fifty  Years.  By  Winfield  M.  Thompson  and  Thomas 
W.  Lawson.     1902. 

"To  Sportsmen — manly  men,  men  of  gentle  mind  and 
simple  heart,  brave  men,  fair  men;  to  men  who  say  to  the 
weak,    'may  I?'  and  to  the  strong,  'I  will!' — to  men  to 


To  Any  and  Every  One  441 


whom  sham  is  dishonor  and  truth  a  guiding  star;  to  men 
who  look  upon  the  sea,  the  plain,  the  forest,  the  mountains, 
the  rising  and  the  setting  sun,  and  the  immutable  Heavens, 
with  a  deep  sense  of  their  own  littleness  in  the  great  scheme 
of  things, — I  dedicate  this  book. 

"Thomas  W.  Lawson." 

School  of  the  Woods.     By  William  J.  Long.     1902. 

"To  the  gentle  Brotherhood  of  Nature  Lovers  I  dedicate 
this  book  of  Nature  and  Animal  Life." 

Following  the  Deer.     By  William  J.  Long.     1903. 

"To  all  sportsmen  with  kind  hearts,  who  rejoice  in  the 
autumn  woods  and  to  whom  killing  is  least  of  the  hunting, 
I  dedicate  this  little  book  of  a  boy's  first  experience  in 
following  the  deer." 

Old  Paths  and  Legends  of  New  England.     By  Katharine 
M.  Abbott.     1904. 

"To  those  who  love  the  old  associations,  who  delight  to 
steal  away  from  these  restless  days  to  the  tranquillity  of 
early  New  England  life  and  the  simplicity  of  ancient 
homesteads,  to  those  who  fain  would  listen  to  the  story  of 
each  hill,  valley,  tree,  and  brook  of  the  old  Bay  State,  this 
little  book  is  sympathetically  inscribed." 

The  Book  of  Clever  Beasts.     Studies  in  Unnatural  History. 
By  Myrtle  Reed.     1904. 

"Dedicated  to  Lovers  of  Truth  everywhere." 

Woodfire  in  No.  3.     By  F.  Hopkinson  Smith.     1903. 

"A  Word  of  Welcome: 

"To  those  of  you  who  love  an  easy  chair,  a  mug,  a  pipe, 
and  a  story;  to  whom  a  well-swept  hearth  is  a  delight  and 
the  cheery  crackle  of  hickory  logs  a  joy;  the  touch  of  whose 
elbows  sends  a  thrill  through  responsive  hearts  and  whose 


442 


Dedications 


genial  talk  but  knits  the  circle  closer, — as  well  as  those 
gentler  spirits  who  are  content  to  listen — how  rare  they  are ! 
— do  I  repeat  Sandy  MacWhirter's  hearty  invitation: 
'Draw  up,  draw  up!  By  the  gods,  but  I  'm  glad  to  see 
you!     Get  a  pipe.     The  tobacco  is  in  the  yellow  jar.* 

"Yours  warmly 

"The  Back  Log." 

The  Log  of  the  Water  Wagon,  or  the  Cruise  of  the  Good 
Ship  Lithia.  By  Bert  Leston  Taylor  and  W.  C.  Gibson. 
1905. 

"To  all  surviving  saloon  passengers  of  the  good  ship 
Lithia,  who  have  rounded  the  Horn  and  passed  through 
perilous  Beering  Straits,  and  suffered  shipwreck,  shock,  and 
sudden  thirst;  to  those  intrepid  souls  who  have  clung  to 
the  slippery  hull  of  the  Water  Wagon  when  it  seemed  the 
gallant  craft  could  not  live  another  hour;  who,  lashed  to 
the  sprinkler,  have  ridden  out  many  a  choking  dust  storm; 
who  have  heard  the  cafe  Lorelei  sing,  and  still  hung  on, 
deaf  to  her  seductive  song;  and — to  the  memory  of  count- 
less thousands  lost  at  sea,  swept  into  the  seething  drink 
without  a  word  of  warning,  cut  off  in  the  blossoms  of  their 
resolutions  and  sent  to  their  slate  accounts  with  all  their 
imperfections  on  their  heads — this  little  volume  is  affec- 
tionately dedicated." 

At  the  Sign  of  the  Fox.     By  Mabel  Osgood  Wright.     1905. 

"This  book  is  for  the  brave 

" '  Prate  not  to  me  of  weaklings,  who 
Lament  this  life  and  nought  achieve. 
I  hymn  the  vast  and  valiant  crew 

Of  those  who  have  scant  time  to  grieve. 
Time  set  their  fortunes  to  retrieve. 
They  sing  for  luck  a  lusty  stave, 
The  world's  staunch  workers,  by  your  leave. 
This  is  the  ballade  of  the  brave. ' 

"Richard  Burton." 


To  Any  and  Every  One  443 


Brier  Patch  Philosophy.     By  Peter  Rabbit.     Interpreted 
by  William  J.  Long.     1906. 

"To  those  who  have  found  their  own  world  to  be  some- 
th  ng  of  a  Brier  Patch,  the  Rabbit  dedicates  this  little 
book  of  cheerful  philosophy." 

Clovers  and  How  to  Grow  Them.    By  Thomas  Shaw.     1906. 

"To  all  persons  who  are  or  may  be  interested  in  the 
growing  of  clovers,  this  work  is  most  respectfully  dedicated 
by  the  author." 

The  History  of  Our  Navy.     By  John  R.  Spears.     1907. 

"To  all  who  would  seek  peace  and  pursue  it." 

Three  Vagabonds  in  Friesland  with  a  Yacht  and  a  Camera. 
By  H.  F.  Tomalin.     1907. 

"To  the  distinguished  many,  who  pursue  the  simple  life 
in  unsought  places, — the  Legion  of  Vagabonds." 

Mind  and  Work.     By  Luther  H.  Gulick.     1908. 

"To  those  who  would  compel,  rather  than  be  compelled, 
by  circumstance;  who  would  drive,  rather  than  be  driven, 
by  their  feelings;  who  wotdd  be  masters  of  themselves  and 
so  of  fate." 

Little  Brown  Jug  at  Kildare.    By  Meredith  Nicholson. 
1908. 

"To  you  at  the  gate." 

Felice.     By  John  Luther  Long.     1908. 

"To  the  gentle  strangers  in  our  gates — who  speak  in 
other  words  and  understand  in  other  ways  than  ours — 
that  both  words  and  ways  may  be  more  and  more  one." 

This  dedication  refers  to  Italians. 


444  Dedications 


The  Wrong  and  Peril  of  Woman  Suffrage.     By  James  M. 
Buckley.     1909. 

"To  men  and  women  who  look  before  they  leap." 

Houses  of  Glass.     By  Helen  G.  Mackay.     1909. 

"To  some  one  who  will  never  read  them." 

The  Beast.     By  Judge  Ben  B.  Lindsey  and  H.  J.  O'Higgins. 
1910. 

"To  those  who  have  helped:  the  hundreds  whose  names 
I  have  not  had  room  to  mention;  the  thousands  whose 
names  I  do  not  even  know. 

"B.  B.  L." 

The  Hollow  Tree   Snowed-in  Book.     By  Albert  Bigelow 
Paine.     1910. 

"To  all  dwellers  in  the  big  deep  woods  of  dream." 

Flamsted  Quarries.     By  Mary  E.  Waller.     1910. 

"To  those  who  toil." 

From   Me   to   You:  A  Gift   of  Friendly   Thoughts.     By 
Edwin  Osgood  Grover.     191 1. 

"To  everyone  who  has  given  me  his  friendship." 

The  Song  of  Renny.     By  Maurice  Hewlett.     191 1. 

DEDICATION 

"To  the  Fountain  of  my  long  dream, 
To  the  Chalice  of  all  my  sorrow, 
To  the  Lamp  held  up,  and  the  stream 
Of  Light  that  beacons  tomorrow. 

"To  the  Bow,  the  Quiver,  and  Dart. 
To  the  Bridle-rein,  to  the  Yoke 
Proudly  upborne,  to  the  Heart 
On  fire,  to  the  Mercy- stroke. 


To  Any  and  Every  One  445 


"To  Apollo  herding  his  cattle, 
To  Proserpina  grave  in  Dis; 
To  the  H  gh  Head  in  the  battle, 

And  the  Crown 1  consecrate  this." 

The  Quiet  Courage.     By  Everard  Jack  Appleton.     1912. 

"To  the  men  who  understand — or  think  they  do." 

The  Half  Timber  House.     By  Allen  W.  Jackson.     1912. 

"To  all  those  who  own  castles  in  Spain." 

When  the  Forests  Are  Ablaze.     By  Katherine  B.  Judson. 
1912. 

"To  the  Mountaineers  whose  object  it  is  to  preserve  the 
marvelous  beauty  of  the  Pacific  Northwest  and  who  are 
yearly  appalled  by  the  havoc  of  the  forest  fires." 

False  Modesty.     By  E.  B.  Lowry.     1912. 
"Dedicated  to  the  next  generation." 

Friar  Tuck.     By  Robert  Alexander  Mason.     1912. 

"Many  there  are  who  respond  to  the  commonplace, 
monotonous  call  of  Duty,  and  year  after  year  uncomplain- 
ingly spend  their  lives  on  the  treadmill  of  Routine :  but  who 
still  feel  in  their  hearts  the  call  of  the  open  road,  the  music 
of  the  stars,  the  wine  of  the  western  wind,  and  the  thrilling 
abandon  of  a  mad  gallop  out  beyond  speed  limits  and  grass 
signs  to  where  life  has  ceased  to  be  a  series  of  cogs  and — a 
man  is  still  a  man. 

"To  the  members  of  this  fraternity,  whose  emblem, 
hidden  behind  deep  and  steadfast  eyes,  is  often  missed  by 
man:  but  always  recognized  by  dogs  and  horses,  I  dedicate 
this  book,  in  the  hope  that  for  an  hour  or  two  it  may  lift 
the  pressure  a  little." 


44^  Dedications  to  Every  One 


The  Spiritual  Body  in  Relation  to  the  Divine  Law  of  Life. 
By  the  Reverend  George  H.  Peeke.     1912. 

"We  dedicate  this  book  to  the  great  army  of  sorrowing 
souls,  who  in  the  hour  of  distress  earnestly  seek,  yet  fail 
to  find  consolation  through  the  ordinary  channels  of  truth 
presented." 

An  Unsinkable  Titanic.     Every  Ship  its  Own  Lifeboat. 
By  J.  Bernard  Walker.     1912. 

"To  the  memory  of  the  chief  engineer  of  the  Titanic, 
John  Bell,  and  his  staff  of  thirty-three  assistants,  who  stood 
at  their  posts  in  the  engine  and  boiler  rooms  to  the  very 
last  and  went  down  with  the  ship,  this  book  is  dedicated." 

Sunshine  on  Life's  Way.     By  Floyd  W.  Tomkins.     1913. 

"  Dedicated  to  the  wayfarers  who  find  the  journey  long 
and  the  weary  who  seek  rest  for  their  souls." 

Downknd  Corner.     By  Victor  L.  Whitechurch.     1913. 

"To  all  who  know  and  love  and  understand  a  little  of 
the  quaint  conceits,  the  hidden  mysteries,  and  the  '  Orkad- 
ness'  of  village  life,  I  dedicate  these  studies." 

Joy  of  Tyrol:  A  Human  Revelation.     Edited  by  J.  M. 

Blake;  with  iii  Original  Illustrations,   Drawn  by  the 

Lady.     (n.  d.) 

"  Dedicated  by  order  of  the  Lady  to  all  such  as  be 
hindered  from  the  Joy  of  Tyrol." 

Two  dedications,  which  have  unfortunately  been  detached  from  the 
books  to  which  they  belong,  ought  nevertheless  to  be  included  in  an 
anthology  that  has  aimed  to  leave  no  form  of  dedication  unrepresented. 
The  author  of  one,  preserving  a  reticence  rarely  to  be  found  in  dedica- 
tions, inscribes  his  book  mysteriously,  "  To  her  who  is  yet  to  be  named." 
The  author  of  the  other,  with  a  frank  avowal  of  his  wishes  almost  equally 
rare,  addresses  "  Mr.  Smith,  with  the  hope  that  he  will  purchase  a 
copy."     This  book  may  well  conclude  with  the  appeal  to  Mr.  Smith. 


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The  search  for  books  concerning  dedications  brought  out  the  fact 
that  comparatively  little  has  been  written  on  the  subject.  Although 
the  following  list  is  not  presented  as  a  complete  bibliography  of  the 
subject,  it  probably  contains  most  of  the  more  important  books  and 
articles.  It  includes  not  only  those  in  the  Public  Library  of  New  York 
City  and  the  Library  of  Columbia  University,  but  the  lists  sent,  in 
response  to  inquiries,  by  the  Library  of  Congress,  the  British  Museum, 
and  the  Bibliotheque  Nationale. 

All  the  Year  Round,  Sept.  26,  1 89 1,  v.  69:  306-308. 

Bibliographer,  October,  1884,  v.  6:  121-126.  Article  by  J.  Rogers 
Rees — "  The  Romance  and  Reality  of  Dedications." 

The  Bookman,  December,  1912.  Article  by  Edna  Kenton — "The 
New  Order  of  Dedications." 

The  Bookworm.  London,  1888,  pp.  75,  150-153.  299,  311,  393-396- 
1889,  pp.  85,  214.  Articles:  Fuller  on  dedications;  "Curiosities  of 
Dedications";  "A  Dedication  of  Dedications";  T.  N.  Postlethwaite, 
Prefaces,  Dedications,  etc. 

BoTFiELD,  Beriah:  Prcefationes  et  Epistolce,  etc.     London,  1861. 

Breu,  Johann:  De  dedicalionum  literariarum  moraUtate.  Argentorati, 
1718. 

Chambers's  Journal,  Apr.  2,  1870,  v.  47:  211-215. 

DTsraeli,  Isaac:  Curiosities  of  Literature,  4th  ed.,  London,  1794. 

The  Gentleman's  Magazine,  v.  78  N.S.,  Jan.  to  June,  1907,  pp.  354-361. 

Gordon,  Thomas:  A  dedication  to  a  great  man,  concerning  dedications, 
discovering,  amongst  other  wonderful  secrets,  what  will  he  the  present  posture 
of  affairs  a  thousand  years  hence.     3d  ed.     London,  1718. 

Gosse,  Edmund:  "Elizabethan  Dedications  of  Books,"  in  Harper's 
Monthly  Magazine,  July,  1902. 

Hazlitt,  William  C:  Prefaces,  Dedications,  Epistles,  Selected  from 
Early  English  Books,  1 540-1701.     London,  1874. 

Hutton,  Laurence:  From  the  Books  of  Laurence  Hutton.  New  York, 
1892. 

Hutton,  Laurence:  "Poetical  Dedications,"  in  the  New  Princeton 
Review,  1888,  v.  6:  113. 

Living  Age,  August  7,  1909. 

29  449 


450  Bibliography 


Macray,  William  Dunn:  Early  Dedications  to  Englishmen  by  Foreign 
Authors  and  Editors,  in  Bibliographica,  v.  i,  pp.  324  £.  and  455  £.,  1895. 

Notes  and  Qtieries,  Mar.  16,  Feb.  23,  1850,  ist  ser.,  v.  i:  259-260,  326; 
Mar.  10,  Apr.  7,  21,  May  5,  i860,  2d  ser.,  v.  9:  180,  266,  309,  350;  July, 
21,  Sept.  I,  15,  29,  Oct.  20,  Nov.  24,  Dec.  15,  i860,  v.  10:  60,  177,  216- 
217,  258-259,  319,  418,  483;  June  15,  1861,  2d  ser.,  v.  11:  477;  July  13, 
1861,  V.  12:  36;  May  31,  1862,  3d  sen,  v.  i:  420;  Dec.  8,  1866,  3d  sen, 
V.  10;  447;  Jan  5,  19,  Feb.  23,  1867,  v.  11:  23,  66,  166;  Feb.  28,  1874, 
5th  sen,  V.  i;  164;  Oct.  24,  1874,  v.  2:  331;  Aug.  28,  1880,  6th  sen,  v. 
2.  168;  July  9,  Sept.  3,  1892,  8th  sen,  v.  2:  30,  192;  Man  3,  24,  Apr.  21, 
1900,  9th  sen,  v.  5:  167,  237,  320;  Sept.  i,  29,  1900,  v.  6:  176,  254. 

Prefaces  and  Prologues  to  Famous  Books,  with  Introductions,  Notes, 
and  Illustrations.  (The  Harvard  Classics,  ed.  by  C.  W.  Eliot,  v.  39.) 
New  York,  1910. 

F.  P.  Tacke;  Commentatio  de  dedicationibus  librorum.     Wolfenbiittel, 

1733- 

The  Tatler,  No.  177.     1710. 

Thackeray.  William  M.:  Prefaces  and  Dedications,  in  Living  Age, 
Apr.  1859,  V.  61,  pp.  25-28. 

Walch,  J.  G.:  De  dedicationibus  librorum  veterum  latinorum  diatribe, 
prcefatio  in  epistolas  select,  et  prcefationes  B.  Cellarii.     Lips.  1715. 

Walsh,  William  S.:  Handy-book  of  Literary  Curiosities,  pp.  220-225. 
Philadelphia,  1909. 

Wheatley,  Henry  B.:  TJie  Dedication  of  Books  to  Patron  and  Friend. 
London,  1887. 

Zeitschrift  filr  Bilcherfreutide,  v.  5,  190 1-2,  pp.  72-77.  Article  by 
Tony  Kellen — "Bucherwidmungen." 

The  following  list  of  French  articles  on  the  subject  was  obtained  from 
the  Bibliotheque  Nationale: 

Bonnefou,  Jean  de:  Les  Dedicaces  d  la  main  de  M.  J.  Barbey  d'Aure- 
villy.     Paris,  1908. 

Eudel,  Paul:  Envois  d'auteurs.     1898. 

Griselle,  Eugene:  Quelques  dedicaces  inedites  d'un  livre  rare  [La 
veritable  Constitution  frangoise,  par  un  depute  du  clerg^  de  Paris  aux 
Etats-Generaux].      Paris,  1907. 

Gu6ret,  Gabriel:  Le  Parnasse  reforme.     lie  Edition.     Paris,  1674. 

Lalanne,  Ludovic:  Curiosites  bibliographiques.     Paris,  1845. 

Lalanne,  Ludovic:  Curiosites  litteraires.     Paris,  1845. 

Martin,  Alexis:  Etude  sur  les  ex-donc  et  dedicaces  autographes. 
Paris,  1877. 

Peignot,  Gabriel:  Souvenirs  relatifs  d  quelques  biblioth^ties.  Paris, 
1836. 


Bibliography  451 


RouvEYRE,   Edouard:   Connaissances  necessaires  d  un  bibliophile. 

I:  5e  Edition,     Tome  VI.     Paris,  s.d. 

SoREL,  C:  La  bibliotheque  frangoise,  Paris,  1664. 
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453 


f  nbei  ot  autbors 


A,    M.,     The    Work     Table    and 
Embroidery  Frame   Companion, 

67 
Abbott,    E.    A.,    St.    Thomas    of 

Ca7iterbury,  152 
Abbott,  Ernest  H.,  On  the  Train- 
ing of  Parents,  368 
Abbott,   J.   S.   C,   Adventures  of 

the   Chevalier  de  la  Salle,    164; 

Life    and    Advefitures    of   Rear- 

Admiral  John  Paul  Jones,  179; 

Miles  Standish,  435 
Abbott,  Katharine  M.,  Old  Paths 

and  Legends  of  New  England, 

441 
Abhedananda,  Swami,  India  and 

her  People,  172 
About,   Edmond,    The  Man  with 

the  Broken  Ear  (translation  by 

Henry  Holt),  297 
Ackermann,  Alfred  S.  E.,  Popular 

Fallacies,  368 
Addams,     Jane,     The    Spirit    of 

Youth  and  the  City  Streets,  318 
Addison,  Joseph,  Works,  134 
Ady,   Thomas,   A    Candle  in  tha 

Dark,  15 
Aguilar,   Grace,  Home  Influence, 

288 
Alcott,  Louisa  M.,  Eight  Cousins, 

270 
Aldrich,  Thomas  B.,  Flower  and 

Thorn,  345 
Aldus,  Manutius,  edition  of  Divina 

Commedia,  85;  edition  of  Idylls 

of  Theocritus,    213;   edition   of 

Dictionum  Grcecium,  215 
Ali,  Moulavl  Cherdgh,  Critical  Ex- 
position   of    the    'Jihad,''    150 
Allen,  James  L.,  The  Bride  of  the 

Mistletoe,  368;   The  Heroine  in 

Bronze,  403 


Allen,  William,  Killing  noe  Mur- 
der, 130 

Amat,  Juan  Rico  y.  Political  and 
Parliamentary  History  of  Spain, 
70 

Ames,  Mary  C,  A  Memorial  of 
Alice  and  Phcebe  Cary,  298 

Amicis,  Edmondo  de,  Alle  Porte 
d' Italia,  166 

Amundsen,  Roald,  The  South  Pole, 
322 

Anonymous,  Devout  Communicant, 
105;  English  and  English  In- 
fluences in  Italy  in  the  XVIII 
Century,  173;  Is  That  Lamp 
Going  Out,  209;  Gradus  ad  Can- 
tabrigiam,  218;  A  Self-Made 
Man's  Wife :  Her  Letters  to  her 
Son,  261 ;  The  History  of  Little 
Goody  Two-Shoes,  268;  Le  Min- 
istere  de  VEnfance,  397 

Appleton,  Everard  J.,  The  Quiet 
Courage,  445 

Arnold,  Edwin,  The  Secret  of 
Death,  165,  344;  The  Light  of 
Asia,  192 

Austin,  Alfred,  The  Garden  that  I 
Love,  310 

Austin,  Jane  G.,  Betty  Alden,  350 

Audubon,  Maria  R.,  Audubon  and 
his  Journals,  356 


B.  W.  D.  D.,  The  Fall  of  Babylon, 

51 
Bacheller,  Irving,  Keeping  Up  with 

Lizzie,  321 
Bacon,  Alice  M.,  Japanese  Girls 

and  Women,  117 
Baedeker,     Karl,     Handbook    for 

Travellers — Southern      Germany 

and  Austria,  425 


455 


456 


Index 


Baker,  George  H.,  Cosmo  Collec- 
tion, 403 
Balzac,  Honor6  de,  Eugenie  Gran- 

det,  288;  ^  Start  in  Life,  332 
Bancroft,    Emily    A.,    Memorials 

and  Letters  of  the  Reverend  John 

R.  Adams,  D.D.,  350 
Bangs,  John  Kendrick,  The  Pur- 
suit of  the  House-Boat,  248;  A 

House-Boat  on  the  Styx,  311 
Barca,    Pedro    Calderon    de    la, 

Sacramental,     Allegorical,     and 

Historical  Ordinances,  133 
Barnes,  Earl,   Woman  in  Modern 

Society,  263 
Barrett,  Walter  (J.  A.  Scoville), 

The  Old  Merchants  of  New  York 

City,  151,  304 
Barrows,  Isabel  C,  A  Sunny  Life, 

281 
Barton,  James   L.,    Daybreak  in 

Turkey,  207 
Batcheller,    T.    B.,    Glimpses    of 

Italian  Court  Life,  79 
Bayliss,  Sir  Wyke,  Rex  Regum,  79 
Bayly,     Elizabeth     B.,     Alfreda 

Holme,  353 
Beaconsfield,  Lord,    Vivian  Grey, 

287 
Beard,  Dan,  Dan  Beard's  Animal 

Book,  278 
Beaufort,  Duke  of.  The  Poetry  of 

Sport,  75 
Beaumont,  Joseph,  Psyche,  13 
Beers,  Clifford  W.,  A   Mind  that 

Found  Itself,  370 
Bell,  Lilian,  The  Love  Affairs  of  an 

Old  Maid,  351;  The  Instinct  of 

Stepfatherhood,  357 
Belloc,  Hilaire,  Caliban's  Guide  to 

Letters,  378;   The  Girondin,  394 
Benelli,  Sem.,  La  Cena  delle  Beffe, 

251 
Benson,  Arthur  C,  The  Leaves  of 

the  Tree,  321 
Benson,  E.  F.,  The  Vintage,  77 
Bergson,  Henri,  Essai  sur  les  Don- 

nees  Immediates  de  la  Conscience, 

152 
Bersezio,    Vittorio,    //    regno    di 

Vittorio  Emanuele  II,  348 
Beyer,    Thomas,     The    American 

Battleship,  182 
Bible  (the  King  James  version),  42 


Bigelow,  Poultney,  History  of  the 

German  Struggle  for  Liberty,  414 
Binns,  Henry  B.,  ^  Life  of  Walt 

Whitman,  365 
Birukoff,  Paul,  Leo  Tolstoy,  365 
Biscionius,  Antonius,  Btbliothec  of 

Mediceo,  56 
Bishop,  Farnham,  Panama,  Past 

and  Present,  173 
Black,  Hugh,  Friendship,  312 
Blackie,    John    S.,     The    Lyrical 

Dramas     of     ^schylus,     219; 

Goethe's     Faust     (translation), 

398 
Blake,  J.  M.,  Joy  of  Tyrol,  446 
Blake,     William,    Illustrations    of 

Blair's  Grave,  61 
Bolton,    Sarah    K.,    Our    Devoted 

Friend  the  Dog,  392 
Boscawen,  William  St.  Chad,  The 

First  of  Empires,  364 
Bourget,  Paul,  Mensonges,  305 
Bowie,   Henry   P.,    The  Laws   of 

Japanese  Paititing,  209 
Bowring,  Sir  John,  Specimens  of 

the  Russian  Poets,  62 
Boyesen,    Hjalmar    H.,    Idyls    of 

Norway,  343 
Boys,  John,  An  Exposition  of  the 

Dominical  Epistles,  329 
Bradberry,  David,  Tetelestai,  16 
Brady,      William,      The      Kedge 

Anchor,  179 
Brassey,  Lady,  A    Voyage  in  the 

Sunbeam,  303 
Brathwaite,    Richard,    The   Peni- 
tent Pilgrim,  13;  Strappado  for 

the  Divell,  431 
Breton,  Nicholas,  The  Pilgrimage 

to     Paradise,     90;     Auspicante 

Jehoua,  93 
Briggs,    Charles   A.,    The   Higher 

Criticism  of  the  Hexateuch,  222 ; 

Commentary    on    the    Book    of 

Psalms,  224 
Broadley,  A.  H.,  Dr.  Johnson  and 

Mrs.  Thrale,  318 
Brockett,    L.    P.,   and   Vaughan, 

Mary  C,  Woman's  Work  in  the 

Civil  War,  257 
Brome,  Richard,  Five  New  Playes, 

423 
Brooks,     George,     Industry    and 
Property,  439 


Index 


457 


Brooks,   Noah,  Henry  Knox,   194 
Brooks,    Phillips,    Sermons,    191; 

Sermons    Preached    in    English 

Churches,  308 
Brown,  Caroline,  Bold  Robin  and 

his  Forest  Rangers,  277 
Brown,  Demetra  Vako,  Haremlik, 

208 
Brown,   Dr.  John,   Spare  Hours, 

148;  Our  Dogs,  389 
Brown,  John  Crosby,  A  Hundred 

Years  of  Merchant  Banking,  369 
Brown,    Mary    E.    and    William 

Adams,     Musical     Instruments 

and  their  Homes,  348 
Brown,    Thatcher    M.,    The    Ro- 
mance of  the  Sea,  407 
Brown,    William   Adams,    Morris 

Ketchum  Jessup,  208;  Christian 

Theology  in   Outline,   224;    The 

Essence  of  Christianity,  363 ;  The 

Christian  Hope,  374 
Browning,      EUzabeth      Barrett, 

Poems,  332;  Aurora  Leigh,  336 
Browning,    Robert,     Balaustion's 

Adventure,    115;   Pippa  Passes, 

239;    Colomhe's   Birthday,   239; 

Luria,     239;     Selections    from 

Poetical    Works,   241;    Sordello, 

295;  Asolando,  306;  One  Word 

More,  334 
Bryant,   Jacob,    Observations   and 

Inquiries,  etc.,  108 
Buckley,  James  M.,    The   Wrong 

and  Peril  of  Woman  Suffrage, 

444 
Buel,  Elizabeth  C.  B.,  The  Tale  of 

the  Spinning-Wheel,  194 
Buell,    Augustus    C,    History    of 

Andrew     Jackson,     154;     Paul 

Jones,  181 
BuUinger,   Heinrich,    Commentary 

on  Isaiah,  285 
Bunner,    Henry    C,    Airs   from 

Arcady,  243 
Bunyan,  John,  Pilgrim's  Progress 

(counterfeit  second  part),  16 
Burgess,  Gelett,    The  Lively  City 

O'Ligg,  274 
Burgess,  Joseph,  John  Burns,  322 
Burgess,    Thornton    W.,    Mother 

West-wind's  Children,  280 
Bumey,  Charles,  History  of  Music, 

59 


Burroughs,  John,  Bird  and  Bough, 
392 

Burton,  Margaret  E.,  The  Educa- 
tion of  Women  in  China,  372 

Butrus  el  Bustani,  Muhit  el  Mu- 
hit,  73 

Byron,  Lord,  The  Giaour,  232; 
Sardanapalus,  235 


Cabot,  Richard  C,  Social  Service 
and  the  Art  of  Healing,  208 

Cady,  Emilie,  God  a  Present  Help, 
402 

Caffin,  Carolina  and  Charles  H., 
Dancing  and  Dancers  of  To-day, 
322 

Calderon,  Serafin  Estebanez, 
Andalusian  Scenes,  436 

Calvert,  A.  F.,  Toledo,  80;  Spanish 
Arms  and  Armour,  80 

Cammann,  H.  J.,  and  Camp, 
Hugh  N.,  The  Charities  of  New 
York,  Brooklyyi,  etc.,  201 

Campo,  Antonio,  History  of  Cre- 
mona, 46 

Capel,  Richard,  Tentations,  loi 

Carpenter,  Bishop  Boyd,  The  Per- 
manent Elements  of  Religion, 
349;  Twilight  Dreams,  352 

Carpenter,  Nathaneal,  Geographic 
Delineated  Forth  in  Two  Books, 
98 

Carpio,  Lope  Felix  de  Vega,  Jeru- 
salem Conquered,  40;  La  Dorotea, 
98;  A  Tragic  Crown,  127 

Carroll,  Lewis,  Through  the  Look- 
ing-Glass,  269;  The  Hunting  of 
the  Snark,  270 

Carrye,  Charles  E.,  Davy  and  the 
Goblins,  272 

Caxton,  William,  The  Eneydos,  1 1 ; 
Godeffrey  of  Bolog7ie,  32;  Ma- 
lory's Morte  Darthur,  85 

Cervantes,  Miguel  de,  Don 
Quixote,  103  (edition  of  1674); 
III  (edition  of  1797);  193  (edi- 
tion of  1892);  230  (edition  of 
1827);  397  (edition  of  1714) 

Chaillu,  Paul  du,  Ivar  the  Viking, 

309 
Chambers,  Edgar,  Roadtown,  153 
Chambers,  Robert  W.,  The  Con- 
spirators, 358 


458 


Index 


Chapman,  George,  Iliad,  95 

Chappell,  J.  Harris,  Georgia  His- 
tory Stories,  365 

Charke,  Charlotte,  Narrative  of 
the  Life  of  Mrs.  Charlotte  Charke, 
382 

Chaucer,  Geoflfrey,  Works  (edi- 
tion of  1532),  33;  (edition  of 
1898),  223;  A  Treatise  on  the 
Astrolabe,  267 

Cheney,  Ednah  D.,  Life,  Letters, 
and  Journals  of  Louisa  M. 
Alcott,  306 

Chesterton,  Gilbert  K.,  What 's 
Wrong  with  the  World,  319 

Chittenden,  E.  P.,  The  Pleroma, 
192 

Churchill,  Charles,  Sermons  on  the 
Lord's  Prayer,  137 

Churchill,  Setin,  General  Gordon, 
175 

Civezza,  Marcellino  da.  The  Sweet 
Mystery  of  the  Immaculate  Con- 
ception, 25 

Clark,  Imogen,  Small  Helps  for 
To-day,  440 

Clarke,  Eliot  C,  Astronomy  from 
a  Dipper,  280 

Clarke,  J.  S.,  and  M'Arthur, 
John,  Life  and  Services  of  Nel- 
son, 145 

Clarke,  William  N.,  A  Study  of 
Christian  Missions,  205;  Can  I 
Believe  in  God  the  Father  ?  223 

Cleaver,  Robert,  A  Godlie  Forme 
of  Householde  Governement,  125 

Clifford,  Hugh,  Sally,  174;  The 
Downfall  of  the  Gods,  372 

Coillard,  Frangois,  On  the  Thresh- 
old of  Central  Africa,  356 

Cole,  Grenville  A.  J.,  Open- Air 
Studies,  222 

Coles,  J.  A.,  Abraham  Coles,  192 

Commander,  Lydia  K.,  The  Amer- 
ican Idea,  156 

Conkling,  Alfred  R.,  City  Govern- 
ment in  the  United  States,  204 

Connor,  Ralph,  The  Man  from 
Glengarry,  172 

Cooke,  Bella,  Rifted  Clouds,  203 

Coolidge,  Susan,  What  Katy  Did, 
275;  A  Round  Dozen,  277 

Cooper,  Harriet  C,  James  Ogle- 
thorpe, 172 


Cooper,  James  Fenimore,  Works, 

164;  The  Pilot,  287 
Copp6e,  Henry,  General  Thomas, 

180 
Coulevain,  Hel^ne  Favre  de,  On 

the  Branch,  369 
Cowan,  Henry,  John  Knox,  155 
Cowper,  William,  Tirocinium,  286 
Craige,        Alexander,        Amorose 

Songes,  etc.,  39 
Crater,    Emma    S.,    Lays    of   the 

Lake,  370 
Crawford,   F.   Marion,   Francesca 

da  Rimini,  261 ;  The  Children  of 

the  King,  439 
Crockett,   Samuel  R.,   Sweetheart 

Travellers,  439 
Crockett,    William   S.,    The  Scott 

Originals,  227 
Croi,  Jean  de.  La  Verite  de  la  Re- 
ligion Reformee,  13 
Crosta,  Clino,  The  Assumption  in 

the  Catholic  Theology  of  To-day, 

364 
Cumberland,    Barlow,   History  of 

the  Union  Jack,  413 
Curtis,  George  W.,  Prue  and  I,  292 
Custer,   Elizabeth   B.,  Boots  and 

Saddles,  346 
Cuyler,  Theodore  L.,  Stirring  the 

Eagle's  Nest,  351 

D'Annunzio,  Gabriele,  Terra  Ver- 

gine,  303 
Daubeny,    Charles,    The    Atomic 

Theory,  218 
Davies,  Sir  John,  Nosce  Teipsum, 

38 
Davis,  Jefferson,  Rise  and  Fall  of 

the  Confederate  Government,  191 
Dawes,  Anna  L.,  Charles  Sumner, 

357 
Dawson,   A.   J.,    Finn   the    Wolf- 
hound, 393 
Dawson,  John  W.,  The  Origin  of 

the  World,  150;  Fossil  Men  and 

their     Modern     Representatives, 

300 
Debouge,  Xavier,  The  Immaculate 

Conception,  23 
De    Bunsen,    Mme.    Charles,    In 

Three  Legations,  81 
Decker,  Ida  S.,  Patience  and  her 

Garden,  320 


Index 


459 


Deering,  John  R.,  Lee  and  his 
Cause,  366 

Defoe,  Daniel,  Military  Memoirs 
of  Captain  George  Carleton,  106 

De  Freval,  J.  B.,  History  of  the 
Heavens,  55 

Dekker,  Thomas,  Canaan's  Ca- 
lamity, 126;  The  Gull's  Horn- 
Book,  429;  The  Raven's  Alma- 
nacke,  430 

Deland,  Margaret,  The  Iron 
Woman,  372 

Derby,  Edward,  Earl  of,  Iliad 
(translation),  72 

Dewey,  Adalbert  M.,  Life  and 
Letters  of  Admiral  Dewey,  171 

Dexter,  Edwin  G.,  Weather  In- 
fluences, 364 

Dibdin,  J.  C,  and  Ayling,  John, 
The  Book  of  the  Lifeboat,  193 

Dickens,  Charles,  American  Notes, 
163;  Bleak  House,  291 

Dix,  Beulah  M.,  Merrylips,  279 

Dobell,  Bertram,  Side  Lights  on 
Charles  Lamb,  250 

Dobson,  Austin,  Poems  on  Several 
Occasions,  258 

Dodd,  Anna  Bowman,  In  and  Out 
of  Three  Normandy  Inns,  247 

Dodge,  Henry  N.,  Christus  Victor, 

17 
Dole,  Charles  F.,    The  American 

Citizen,  400 
Dorsey,  E.  L.,  Midshipman  Bob, 

273 

Dougall,  Lily,  Beggars  All,  354 

Doyle,  A.  Conan,  A  Duet,  312 

Draper,  Andrew  S.,  The  Rescue  of 
Cuba,  181 

Drayton,  Michael,  Poly-Olbion, 
42 

Dryden,  John,  The  Indian  Emper- 
or, 102;  The  State  of  Innocence, 
104 

DuBose,  J.  W.,  The  Life  and  Times 
of  William  Lowndes  Yancy,  166 

Duncan,  Norman,  Billy  Topsail 
and  Company,  320 

Duncan,  Sara  J.,  A  Social  De- 
parture, 439 

Dupuis,  Joseph,  Journal  of  a  Resi- 
dence in  Ashantee,  63 

Dyce,  Alexander,  edition  of 
Shakespeare's  Works,  240 


E.  V.  B.,  A  Garden  of  Pleasure,  274 

Earle,  Alice  M.,  Colonial  Days  in- 
Old  New  York,  194;  Sundials 
and  Roses  of  Yesterday,  363 

Ebers,  Georg,  Uarda,  17;  The 
Sisters,  301 

Edwards,  J.  H.,  God  and  Music, 

154 

EUwanger,  H.  B.,  The  Rose,  343 

Ely,  Helen  R.,  ^4  Woman's  Hardy 
Garden,  314 

Erasmus,  Desiderius,  New  Testa- 
ment in  Greek,  121 

Ercilla,  Alonso  de.  La  Araucana, 
38 

Eucken,  Rudolf,  The  Unity  of  the 
Life  of  the  Spirit,  348 

Evelyn,  John,  Freart's  Parallel  of 
Ancient  Architecture  with  the 
Modern  (translation),  48 

Faber,  Frederick  W.,  Hymns,  114 

Fairless,  Michael,  The  Road- 
mejider,  413 

Farnol,  Jeffrey,  The  Broad  High- 
way, 321;  The  Amateur  Gentle- 
man, 2,75 

Farwell,  Abbie,  The  Book  of  Saints 
and  Friendly  Beasts,  390 

Field,  Eugene,  A  Little  Book  of 
Western  Verse,  349;  Love  Songs 
of  Childhood,  352 

Finck,  Henry  T.,  Wagner  and  his 
Works,  309 

Fisher,  George  P.,  History  of  the 
Christian  Church,  313 

Fisher,  W.  L.,  Fisher's  New  Sys- 
tem of  Society,  200 

Fiske,  John,  The  Discovery  of 
America,  221;  Myths  and  Myth 
Makers,  242;  Darwinism  and 
Other  Essays,  242;  The  American 
Revolution,  259;  The  Idea  of 
God,  346 

Fitch,  George  H.,  Comfort  Found 
in  Good  Old  Books,  372 

Fitzgerald,  Sir  Percy,  Jock  of  the 
Bushveld,  279 

Fletcher,  Ella  A.,  The  Woman 
Beautiful,  260 

Fletcher,  F.  W.,  Sport  on  the  Nil- 
giris  and  in  Wynaad,  414 

Florio,  John,  Queen  Anna's  New 
World  of  Words,  421 


460 


Index 


Flud,    Robert,    Utriusque    Cosmi 

.     .     .  Historia,  12 

Forbes,     Patrick,     An     Exquisite 

Commentarie  upon  the  Revelation 

of  St.  John,  43 

Ford,  Sallie  R.,  Grace  Truman,  337 

Fort,   Tomlinson,    Fort's   Medical 

Practise,  200 
Fowler,  Ellen  T.,  Concerning  Isa- 
bel Carnaby,  360 
Fox,  Frank,  Australia,  415 
Fox,  John,  The  Kentuckians,  357 
French,  Lillie  H.,  My  Old  Maid's 
Corner,  314;    The  Joy  of  Life, 

315 
Frennsen,    Gustav,   Peter   Moor's 

Journey  to  Southwest  Africa,  403 
Freytag,  George  W.,  Arabic-Latin 

Lexicon,  64 
Freytag,  Gustav,  Die  Ahnen,  73 
Friend,     Hilderic,     Flowers     and 

Flower  Lore,  22 1 
Fuller,     Mrs.     Marcus    B.,     The 

Wrongs  of  Indian  Womanhood, 

260 


Gardiner,  William,  The  Music  of 

Nature,  238 
Garrison,    Wendell    P.,    William 

Lloyd  Garrison,  305 
Gates,  Josephine  S.,  More  About 

Live  Dolls,  276 
Gatty,  Alfred,  The  Bell,  333 
George,  Henry,  Jr.,   The  Life  of 

Henry  George,  207 
Gibson,    W.    Hamilton,    Pastoral 

Days,  302 
Gilbert,  George  H.,  The  Student's 

Life  of  Jesus,  223 
Goldsmith,  Oliver,  She  Stoops  to 

Conquer,  231 
GoUancz,  Israel,  The  Pearl,  400 
Gordon,  Elizabeth,  Flower  Child- 
ren, 279 
Gordon,  George  A.,  Religion  and 

Miracle,  370 
Gosse,  Edmund,  Firdausi  in  Exile, 

248 
Gosson,  Stephen,  Ephemerides  of 

Phialo,  87 
Graf,  Arturo,  Rome  in  the  Memory 

and  Imagination  of  the  Middle 

Ages,  164 


Grant,  Ulysses  S.,  Personal 
Memoirs,  179 

Greely,  Adolphus  W.,  Three  Years 
of  Arctic  Service,  438 

Greenaway,  Kate,  Marigold  Gar- 
den, 275 

Greene,  F.  V.,  The  Revolutionary 
War,  etc.,  182 

Greene,  Robert,  Pandosto,  87 

Grego,  Joseph,  Rowlandson  the 
Caricaturist,  436 

Gregory,  Alva  A.,  Spinal  Treat- 
ment, 210 

Gregory,  Lady  Augusta,  Seven 
Short  Plays,  251 

Gregory,  Eliot,  The  Ways  of  Men, 
249 

Grey,  William,  The  British  Gram- 
mar, 57 

Griffis,  William  E.,  Sir  William 
Johnson  and  the  Six  Nations, 
165;  Brave  Little  Holland,  168; 
Honda  the  Samurai,  204;  The 
Mikado's  Empire,  224 

Grose,  Howard  B.,  The  Incoming 
Millions,  261 

Grover,  Edwin  O.,  From  Me  to 
You,  444 

Grymeston,  Elizabeth,  Miscelanea, 
Meditations,    Memoratives,    328 

Guerber,  H.  A.,  Legends  of  Switzer- 
land, 171 

Gulick,  Luther,  The  Efficient  Life, 
157;  Mind  and  Work,  443 

Gulliver,  Lucile,  The  Friendship 
of  Nations,  374 

Guns,  Q.  F.  C,  and  Theeluker, 
Phyl,  Middle  Watch  Musings, 
183 

Gwynn,  John,  An  Essay  on  Design, 
108 


Habberton,  John,  Helen's  Babies, 

435 
Haggard,  H.  Rider,  Regeneration, 

208;  King  Solomon's  Mines,  425 
Hale,   George   E.,    The   Study  of 

Stellar  Evolution,  207 
Hall,  Bolton,  The  Gift  of  Sleep,  157 
Hall,  Eliza  C.,  A  Book  of  Hand 

Woven  Coverlets,  2,^2 
Hall,     Joseph,     Meditations    and 

Vows,  94 


Index 


461 


Hallock,  Charles,  The  Fishing 
Tourist,  389 

Hamilton,  Charles,  The  Heddya, 
141 

Hamlin,  Cyrus,  My  Life  and 
Times,  352 

Hancock,  Albert  E.,  John  Keats, 
368 

Hardy,  Arthur  S.,  But  Yet  a 
Woman,  344 

Harker,  Mrs.  L.  Allen,  Concerning 
Paul  and  Fiammetta,  278 

Harland,  Marion,  John  Knox,  153 

Harper,  Ida  H.,  The  Life  a7id  Work 
of  Susan  B.  Anthony,  260 

Harris,  Joel  C,  Young  Folks  Li- 
brary, 276 

Harris,  John,  A  Complete  Collec- 
tion of  Voyages  and  Travels,  52 

Hart,  Albert  B.,  Salmon  Portland 
Chase,  360 

Hart,  George,  The  Violin,  438 

Hart,  James  M.,  German  Universi- 
ties, 299 

Hartt,  Charles  F.,  Geology  and 
Physical  Geography  of  Brazil, 
219 

Hauptmann,  Gerhart,  The 
Weavers,  366 

Haweis,  Hugh  R.,  Music  and 
Morals,  341 

Hawkes,  Clarence,  Shaggycoat, 
392 ;  Tenants  of  the  Trees,  393 

Hedin,  Sven,  Central  Asia  and 
Thibet,  154 

Henderson,  Archibald,  Mark 
Twain,  322 

Henderson,  C.  Hanford,  Children 
of  Good  Fortune,  315 

Henderson,  E.  F.,  A  Short  History 
of  Germany,  81 

Henderson,  Mrs.  Mary  F.,  Practi- 
cal Cooking,  300 

Henderson,  "W.  J.,  The  Orchestra 
and  Orchestral  Music,  195 

Henley,  William  E.,  Poems,  357 

Herbert,  George,  The  Church- 
Porch,  13 

Herbert,  Lord,  of  Cherbury,  Life 
(dedication  by  Horace  Wal- 
pole),  109 

Herford,  Oliver,  The  Bashful 
Earthquake,  385 

Herrick,  Robert,  Hesperides,  47 


Hewlett,  Maurice,     The   Song   of 

Renny,  444 
Heywood,    Thomas,    The    Golden 

Age,  421 
Higginson,  Thomas  W.,  Cheerful 

Yesterdays,  358 
Hill,  George  B.,  Colonel  Gordon  in 

South  Africa,  302 
Hillhouse,  Margaret  P.,  The  White 

Rose  Knight,  376;   Chickamauga 

to  Corregidor,  376 
Hoare,  Katherine  L.,  The  Art  of 

Tatting,  82 
Hobbs,  William  H.,  Characteristics 

of  Existing  Glaciers,  226 
Hobson,  Harriet  M.,  Jinks's  In- 
side, 373 
Hofman,    Tycho    de.    History    of 

Danish  Noblemen,  59 
Hogarth,  William,  The  No-Dedica- 
tion, 433 
Holbrook,  Florence,  The  Hiawatha 

Primer,  274 
Holcomb,  Helen  H.,  Men  of  Might 

in  India  Missions,  205 
Hole,  S.  Reynolds,  A  Book  about 

Roses,  354 
Holland,    Lady,     A    Memoir    of 

the     Reverend     Sidney     Smith, 

340 
Holland,        Philemon,        Pliny's 

Naturall  Historic  (translation), 

94 

Holies,  Denzil,  Tract,  129 
Holmes,  Oliver  W.,  The  Guardian 

Angel,  297 
Hopkins,  Edward  W.,   The  Great 

Epic  of  India,  223 
Hornby,     William,     Scourge     of 

Drunkenness,  430 
Hosford,     Hester     E.,     Woodrow 

Wilson,  374 
Hough,    Emerson,    John    Ranon, 

Howard,  Oliver  O.,  Autobiography, 

367 
Howitt,  Anna  M.,  An  Art  Student 

in  Munich,  333 
Hughes,  R.  M.,  General  Johnston, 

179 
Hugo,  Victor,  The  Toilers  of  the 

Sea,  164 
Hume,  Martin  A.  S.,  Sir  Walter 

Ralegh,  77 


462 


Index 


Hume,  Robert  A..,  An  Interpreta- 
tion 0}  India's  Religious  History, 

173 
Humphrey,  Lucy  H.,   The  Poetic 

New  World,  369 
Hunt,  Leigh,  Foliage,  233 
Hunt,  Myron  A.,  How  to  Crow  Cut 

Flowers,  352 
Hutton,  Laurence,  A  Boy  I  Knew, 

249 ;  From  the  Books  of  Laurence 

Hutton,  439 
Hyde,    William    D.,    The    College 

Alan  and  the  College  Woman,  155 

Irwin,  Wallace,  Chinatown  Ballads, 
172 

Jack,  Robert  L.,  and  Etheridge, 
Robert,  Geology  and  Palceon- 
tology  of  Queensland,  222 

Jackson,  Allen  W.,  The  Half  Tim- 
ber House,  445 

Jackson,  Mrs.  F.  Nevill,  Toys  of 
Other  Days,  279 

Jackson,  John  P.,  Passion  Play  at 
Oher-A^nmergau,  74 

James  L,  A  Declaration  Concern- 
ing the  Proceedings  with  the 
States  Cenerall,  12 

Jamison,  David  F.,  The  Life  and 
Times  of  Bertrand  du  Guesclin, 
241 

Jane,  Fred  T.,  The  British  Battle 
Fleet,  183 

Jannaris,  A.  N.,  An  Historical 
Greek  Grammar,  117 

Jerome,  Jerome  K.,  The  Idle 
Thoughts  of  an  Idle  Fellow,  412 

Johnson,  Bradley  T.,  General 
Washington,  356 

Johnston,  Annie  F.,  The  Little 
Colonel's  Holidays,  275 

Johnston,  E.  B.,  George  Washing- 
ton Day  by  Day,  180 

Jones,  John  P.,  India,  Its  Life  and 
Thought,  368 

Jonson,  Ben,  Masque  of  Queenes, 
41;  Volpone,  187;  The  New  Inn, 
422;  Cynthia's  Revels,  431 

Jordan,  Kate,  The  Creeping  Tides, 

251 
Jowett,  Benjamin,  The  Dialogues 
of  Plato,  221 


Judson,  Katherine  B.,   When  the 

Forests  are  Ablaze,  445 
Junius,  Letters  of,  169 

Kapp,  Friedrich,  Life  of  Frederick 
William  Von  Steuben,  338 

Karamzin,  Nikolai,  History  of  the 
Russian  Empire,  78 

Kauffmann,  Reginald,  The  House 
of  Bondage,  373 

Kearton,  Richard,  Wild  Life  at 
Home,  313;  With  Nature  and  a 
Camera,  358 

Keats,  John,  Poems,  233;  Endy- 
mion,  234 

Keeler,  Harriet,  Our  Native  Trees, 
390 

Keller,  Helen,  The  Story  of  My 
Life,  206 

Kendall,  Henry  C,  Australasia, 
418 

Kennedy,  Charles  Rann,  The  Ser- 
vant in  the  House,  317;  The 
Terrible  Meek,  374;  The  Neces- 
sary Evil,  375 

Kennedy,  James,  Lectures  on  the 
Philosophy  of  the  Mosaic  Record 
of  Creation,  144 

Kephart,  Horace,  The  Book  of 
Camping  and  Woodcraft,  250 

Kerr,  Winfield  S.,  John  Sherman, 

173 

Kidder,  Martha,  Ionian  Echoes, 

373 

Kinane,  Thomas  H.,  Mary  Im- 
maculate, 24 

Kingsley,  Charles,  Westward  Ho, 
147;  The  Roman  and  the  Teuton, 
219;  The  Water  Babies,  269; 
Hereward  the  Wake,  296;  Hy- 
patia,  333 

Kingsley,  Mrs.  Charles,  Charles 
Kingsley,  His  Letters  and  Memo- 
ries of  his  Life,  342 

Kipling,  Rudyard,  Plain  Tales 
from  the  Hills,  259 

Knopf,  S.  A.,  Pulmonary  Tubercu- 
losis, 205 

Knowles,  Ellin  J.,  Spirit  and  Life, 
360 

Kostlin,  Julius,  Luther'' s  Leben,  343 

La  Fontaine,  Fables,  267 


I 


Index 


463 


Lamb,  Charles,  Rosamund  Gray, 
286;  Poems,  329 

Lambert,  Claude  F.,  History  of  the 
Literature  of  the  Reign  of  Louis 
XIV,  54 

Lampadius,  W.  A.,  Life  of  Men- 
delssohn, 296 

Landor,  Walter  S.,  Hellenics,  146 

Lang,  Andrew,  Helen  of  Troy, 
302 

Lansdell,  Henry,  Russian  Central 
Asia,  75 

Lawrence,  Frederick  and  Emme- 
line  Pethick,  Votes  for  Women, 
263 

Layard,  George  S.,  Suppressed 
Plates,  279 

Lear,  Edward,  The  Complete  Non- 
sense Book,  280 

Learned,  Walter,  Between  Times, 

350 
Lee,  Fitzhugh,  General  Lee,  180 
Lee,  Gerald  S.,  Crowds,  416 
Lee,  Jennette,  Uncle  William,  371 
Lee,  Samuel,   Controversial  Tracts 
on  Christianity  and  Mohamme- 
danism, 144 
Le  Gallienne,  Richard,  The  Maker 

of  Rainbows,  323 
Lent,  William  B.,  Gipsying  beyond 

the  Sea,  352 
Leonard,  Arthur  G.,    The  Lower 

Niger  and  its  Tribes,  172 
Lepicier,  Alexio  M.,  Treatise  Con- 
cerning the  Blessed  Virgin  Mary, 

25 
Le    Plongeon,    Augustus,    Queen 
Moo  and  the  Egyptian  Sphinx, 

355 
Lewis,   A.   H.,    When   Men   Grew 

Tall,  156 
Lewis,  H.  H.,  A   Gunner  Aboard 

the  "  Yankee,''  180 
Leycester,  John,  The  Civill  Warres 

of  England,  14 
Lincoln,  Joseph  C,  Our   Village, 

319 

Lindsay,  Maud,  A   Story  Garden 

for  Little  Children,  210 
Lindsey,  Ben  B.,  The  Beast,  444 
Lin-le,  The  History  of  the  Ti-Ping 

Revolution,  148 
Little,  Frances,   The  Lady  of  the 

Decoration,  367 


Livingston,  W.  F.,  Israel  Putnam^ 
194 

Livingstone,  David,  Missionary 
Travels  and  Researches  in  South 
Africa,  292 

Long,  John  L.,  Felice,  443 

Long,  William  J.,  Ways  of  Wood 
Folk,2,<)0;  Wilderness  Ways,  2,90', 
Secrets  of  the  Woods,  391;  School 
of  the  Woods,  441 ;  Following  the 
Deer,  441;  Brier  Patch  Philoso- 
phy, 443 

Longfellow,  Henry  W.,  The  Sea- 
side and  the  Fireside,  289 

Loring,  J.  Alden,  You7ig  Folks' 
Nature  Field  Book,  392 

Lossing,  Benson  J.,  Mary  and 
Martha,  the  Mother  and  the  Wife 
of  George  Washington,  258 

Loti,  Pierre,  Le  Mariage  de  Loti- 
Rarahu,  259 

Low,  Will  H.,  A  Painter's  Pro- 
gress, 371 

Lowe,  Edward  J.,  A  Natural  His- 
tory of  British  Grasses,  219 

Lowell,  James  R.,  Under  the  Wil- 
lows, 297;  Among  my  Books,  341 

Lowry,  E.  B.,  False  Modesty,  445 

Lucas,  E.  v.,  The  Open  Road,  361 

Luther,  Martin,  On  the  Liberty  of 
a  Christian  Man,  123 

Lynde,  Humphrey,  Via  Devia,  187 

Lytton,  Lord,  Maltravers,  163; 
Eugene  Aram,  237;  Pilgrims  of 
the  Rhine,  331 

M.  E.  B.,  Father  and  Child,  365 

M.  E.  B.  and  H.  G.  B.,  The  Story 
of  John  Adams,  361 

McGoodwin,  Henry,  Architectural 
Shades  and  Shadows,  224 

McRee,  Griffith  J.,  Life  and  Cor- 
respondence   of    James    Iredell, 

H7 
Maartens,      Maarten,     An     Old 

Maid's  Love,  308 
Mabie,  Hamilton  W.,  The  Life  of 

the  Spirit,  152 
MacCracken,  Henry  M.,  The  Hall 

of  Fame,  195 
Macdonald,   George,   A    Book    of 

Strife,  301 
Machiavelli,  Niccol6,  The  History 

of  Florence,  124 


464 


Index 


Mackay,    Helen    G.,    Houses    of 

Glass,  444 
Mackaye,  Percy,  Mater,  368 
Maclaren,  Ian,   The  Mind  of  the 

Master,  311 
Macleod,     Donald,     Memoir     of 

Norman  Macleod,  342 
MacManus,      Seumas,      Donegal 

Fairy  Stories,  249;  In  Chimney 

Corners,  280 
Maeterlinck,  Maurice,  Pelleas  et 

Melisande,    308;    Wisdom    and 

Destiny,  312 
Magno,  Giuseppe,    The  Immacu- 
late   Conception    in    the    XIX 

Century,  24 
Maharani  of  Baroda,  and  Mitra, 

S.  M.,  The  Position  of  Women 

in  Indian  Life,  262 
Mantell,   Gideon,   Geology   of  the 

South-East  of  England,  64 
March,  Ausias,  Works,  86 
Markham,  Gervase,   The  English 

Husbandman,  97 
Marks,    Jeannette,    and    Moody, 

Julia,  A  Holiday  wtth  the  Birds, 

394 

Marsh,   Catherine,    Memorials  of 

Captain  Hedley  Vicars,  341 
Marston,   John,    The   Scourge   of 

Villainie,  381 
Marston,    Westland,    Our   Recent 

Actors,  307 
Marti-Miquel,    Jaime,    Poems    of 

the   Principal    Foreign    Authors 

Rendered  into  Spanish,  244 
Mason,  Amelia  G.,  Woman  in  the 

Golden  Ages,  260 
Mason,    Arthur    James,    Thomas 

Cranmer,  222 
Mason,  Otis  T.,  Woman's  Share  in 

Primitive  Culture,  259 
Mason,  Robert  A.,    Friar    Tuck, 

445 

Maurel,  A.,  The  Immaculate  Con- 
ception of  the  Very  Saintly  Vir- 
gin, 23 

Maurice,  Thomas,  The  History  of 
Hindustan,  62 

Maxwell,  Sir  Herbert,  The  Life  of 
Wellington,  181 

Meakin,  A.  M.  B.,  Russia:  Travels 
and  Studies,  155 

Merriman,     Charles    E.,     Letters 


from  a  Son  to  his  Self-Made 
Father,  250 

Meyer,  J.  A.,  The  Green  C,  374 

Mez^ray,  Frangois  E.  de.  Chrono- 
logical Abridgment  or  Extract  of 
the  History  of  France,  433 

Michael,  E.,  Practical  Thoughts  of 
a  Mother,  344 

Mill,  John  S.,  Liberty,  338 

Mills,  Herbert  V.,  Poverty  and  the 
State,  221 

Mills,  W.  Jay,  Glimpses  of  Colonial 
Society,  195 

Milns,  William,  The  Well-Bred 
Scholar,  217 

Milton,  John,  Comus,  100 

Mitchell,  Donald  G.,  American 
Lands  and  Letters,  356 

Monmouth,  Henry,  Earl  of.  His- 
tory of  the  Civil  Wars  of  England, 

423 

Montaigne,  Michel  de,  Essays 
(edition  of  1635),  128 

Montessori,  Maria,  The  Montessori 
Method,  323 

Moore,  Edward  C,  An  Outline  of 
the  History  of  Christian  Thought 
since  Kant,  226;  The  New  Testa- 
ment in  the   Christian   Church, 

364 
Moore,  Isabel,  Talks  in  a  Library 

with  Laurence  Hutton,  315 
Moore,   John   T.,    The  Bishop  of 

Cottontown,    366;    Gift    of    the 

Grass,  394 
More,  Hannah,  Christian  Morals, 

142;  Hints  towards  forming  the 

Character  of  a   Young  Princess, 

142 
Morley,    John,    Life    of    William 

Ewart  Gladstone,  172 
Morris,  F.  O.,  A  Natural  History 

of  the  Nests  and  Eggs  of  British 

Birds,  115 
Morrison,    Robert,   Dictionary  of 

the  Chinese  Language,  190 
Morse,  Jedediah,  Geography  Made 

Easy,  162 
Morse,   Margaret  F.,  Scottie  and 

his  Lady,  394 
Moss,  Maria  ].,  A  Poetical  Cook 

Book,  434 
Moulton,  Louise  C,  At  the  Wind's 

Will,  401 


Index 


465 


Muir,  John,  Our  National  Parks, 

315 
Muir,  Matthew  M.  P.,  ^4  History 

oj  Chemical  Theories  and  Laws, 

225 
Mulhall,  Michael  G.,  The  Progress 

of  the  World,  191 
Miiller,  Max,  Chips  from  a  German 

Workshop,  298 
Miinsterberg,     Hugo,     American 

Traits,  157 
Murchison,  Charles,  Palceontologi- 

cal  Memories  and  Notes,  148 

N.  H.,  The  Ladies  Dictionary,  255 
Nansen,  Fridtjof,  Farthest  North, 

357 
Napier,  W.  F.  P.,  History  of  the 

War  in  the  Peninsula,  145 
Newman,   John   Henry,    Callista, 

298 
Newton,  W,  W.,  Dr.  Muhlenberg, 

151 
Nicholson,  Meredith,  Little  Brown 

Jug  at  Kildare,  443 
Night    Caps.     By   the   Author   of 

Aunt  Fanny's  Christmas  Stories, 

378 
Nightingale,    Florence,    Introduc- 
tory Notes  on  Lying-in  Institu- 
tions, 258 
Nisco,  Niccola,  Civil  History  of  the 

Italian  Kingdom,  75 
Nitob^,     Inazo,      The     Japanese 

Nation,  196 
Noble,  Louis,  Life  and  Works  of 

Thomas  Cole,  240 
Nolen,    John,    Replanning    Small 

Cities,  209 
Nordenskiold,  Baron  A.  E.,   The 

Voyage  of  the  Vega,  75 
Norman,  Henry,  TJie  Peoples  and 

Politics  of  the  Far  East,  194 
Norris,  Kathleen,  The  Rich  Mrs. 

Burgoyne,  323 

Ogilby,  John,  Embassy  from  the 

East  India  Company,  etc.,  49 
Okuma,  Count,  Fifty  Years  of  New 

Japan,  81 
Ollivant,  Alfred,   The   Taming  of 

John  Blunt,  403 
Orano,    Domenico,    //    Sacco    di 

Roma,  164 


Orton,    James,    The   Proverbialist 

and  the  Poet,  434 
Osbom,  Henry  F.,  From  the  Greeks 

to  Darwin,  222 
Ottley,  William  Y.,  Inquiry  into 

the    Origin  .  .  .  of    Engraving, 

142 


Page,  Samuel,  Alcilia,  231 

Page,  Thomas  N.,  /n  Ole  Virginia, 
165;  Robert  E.  Lee,  the  South- 
erner, 182;  Santa  Clauses  Part- 
ner, 361 

Paine,  Albert  B.,  The  Hollow  Tree 
Snowed-In  Book,  444 

and    Ver    Beck,     F.,     The 

Arkansaw  Bear,  274 

Pais,  Ettore,  Storia  Critica  di 
Roma,  77 

Palmer,  George  H.,  The  Life  of 
Alice  Freeman  Palmer,  261 

Paris,  John  A.,  Philosophy  in 
Sport,  236 

Parker,  George,  Life's  Painter  of 
Variegated  Characters,  424 

Parker,  John  H.,  The  Gathering  at 
Santiago,  181 

Parkinson,  John,  Parodist  in  Sole, 

44 
Parton,   James,   Life   of  Andrew 

Jackson,  164 
Partridge,  William  O.,  The  Song- 
Life  of  a  Sculptor,  400 
Patmore,  Coventry,  The  Angel  in 

the  House,  338 
Peabody,  Francis  G.,  Mornings  in 

the    College    Chapel,    153,    316; 

Jesus   Christ  and  the  Christian 

Character,  277;  Jesus  Christ  and 

the  Social  Question,  367 
Peabody,  Josephine    P.,   Fortune 

and  Men's  Eyes,  362 
Pears,  Charles,  From  the  Thames 

to  the  Seine,  371 
Peeke,  George  H.,  The  Spirihml 

Body  in  Relation  to  the  Divine 

Law  of  Life,  446 
PenneU,  Elizabeth  R.  and  Joseph, 

Our  Sentimental  Journey,  245 
Percy,  Bishop,  Reliqties  of  Ancient 

English  Poetry,  III 
Percy,   Sholto  and  Reuben,    The 

Percy  Anecdotes,  199 


466 


Index 


Perkins,   Justin,    A    Residence   of 

Eight  Years  in  Persia,  332 
Perry,     Walter     C,     Creek    and 

Roman  Sculpture,  75 
Petrie,  M    L.  G.,  Clews  to  Holy 

Writ,  116 
Pickering,    Mary    Orne,    Life   of 

John  Pickering,  347 
Pierson,  Arthur  T.,  The  New  Acts 

of  the  Apostles,  204 
Pike,  Nicolas,  A   New  and  Com- 
plete System  of  Arithmetic,  139 
Pinckard,    George,    Notes   on   the 

West  Indies,  397 
Pinckney,    Charles    C,    Life    of 

General  Thomas  Pinckney,  193 
Pokagon,  Chief   Simon,   Queen  of 

the  Woods,  205 
Pontes,  Lucien  D.  de,  Social  Re- 
form in  England,  201 
Porai-koshits,  Ivan  A.,  Historical 

Sketch  of  the  Russian  Nobility,  73 
Portenar,  A.  J.,  Organized  Labor, 

96 
Potter,  Henry  Codman,  The  East 

of  To-day  and  To-morrow,  153 
Power,    Tyrone,    Impressions    of 

America,  162 
Prentiss,  George,  Another  Decade 

in  the  History  of  Union    Theo- 
logical Seminary,  223 
Prescott,   William   H.,  History  of 

the    Reign    of    Ferdinand    and 

Isabella,  331 
Prime,  William  C,  Tent  Life  in  the 

Holy  Land,  337 
Proctor,  John,  Historie  of  Wyate's 

Rebellion,  34 
Przhevalski,  Nikolai,  The  Fourth 

Voyage  to  Central  Asia,  76 
Putnam,   George   H.,   Books  and 

their  Makers  during  the  Middle 

Ages,  355 
Pyle,  Howard,  The  Garden  behind 

the  Moon,  274 

Quiller-Couch,  A.  T.,  The  Oxford 
Book  of  Verse,  225;  Ship  of 
Stars,  313 

Quincy,  Josiah,  The  History  of 
Harvard  University,  218 

Raine,  William  M.,  Ridgway  of 
Montana,  369 


Ramsay,  Allan,  A  Collection  of 
Scotch  Proverbs,  161 ;  The  Tea- 
Table  Miscellany,  256 

Rauschenbusch,  Walter,  For  God 
and  the  People,  321 ;  Christianity 
and  the  Social  Crisis,  374 

Ravenel,  Harriott  H.,  Eliza  Pinck- 
ney, 355 

Read,  George  H.,  The  Last  Cruise 
of  the  Saginaw,  210 

Reade,  Charles,  Peg  Woffington, 
291 

Redfield,  W.  C,  New  Industrial 
Day,  323 

Reed,  Henry,  English  Literature, 
336 

Reed,  Myrtle,  The  Book  of  Clever 
Beasts,  441 

Reeve,  Sidney  A.,  The  Thermo- 
dynamics of  Heat- Engines,  364 

Remington,  Frederic,  Pony 
Tracks,  439 

Repplier,  Agnes,  The  Fireside 
Sphinx,  391 

Rhythms  and  Songs  gathered  from 
Various  Sources  in  Honor  of 
Mary  the  Virgin  Immaculate,  25 

Rice,  Alice  Hegan,  Lovey  Mary,  363 

Richard,  T.  A.,  Journeys  of  Ob- 
servation, 367 

Richards,  Laura  E.,  Florence 
Nightingale,  208 

Richards,  W.  C,  The  Apostle  of 
Burma,  203;    Science  in  Song, 

399 
Riis,  Jacob,  Theodore  Roosevelt  as 

a  Citizen,  172 
Riordan,  R.,  and  Tozo  Takayan- 

agi,  Sunrise  Stories,  151 
Roberts,    Lord,    Forty-One    Years 

in  India,  171 
Robinson,  Charles  M.,  The  Call  of 

the  City,  196 
Robinson,     Llargaret,     Souls    in 

Pawn,  440 
Rogers,    Joseph    M.,     The    True 

Henry  Clay,  365 
Rollandus,  Textbook  of  Arithmetic, 

30 
Roosevelt,  Theodore,   The  Rough 

Riders,  180 
Roosevelt-Robinson,  Corinne,  The 

Call  of  Brotherhood  and   Other 

Poems,  324 


Index 


467 


Rosebery,  Lord,  Pitt,  351 

Rossetti,  Christina,  Sing-Song, 
279 

Rostand,  Edmond,  Cyrano  de 
Bergerac,  312 

Rothschild,  Alonzo,  Lincoln,  Mas- 
ter of  Men,  366 

Rowland,  Kate  M.,  The  Life  of 
George  Mason,  166 

Ruskin,  John,  The  Ethics  of  the 
Dust,  269;  Modern  Painters,  434 

Russell,  George  W.  E.,  Matthew 
Arnold,  315 

Ryan,  Abram  J.,  Poems,  343 


Sabatier,  Paul,  Life  of  St.  Francis 
of  Assisi,  168 

Sage,  Elizabeth,  and  Cooley, 
Anna  M.,  Occupations  for  Little 
Fingers,  278 

Salmon,  Thomas,  A  New  Geo- 
graphical and  Historical  Gram- 
mar, 58 

San^.son,  George  W.,  Elements  of 
Art  Criticism,  201 

Sanderson,  James  M.,  My  Record 
in  Rebeldom,  435 

Sanderson,  Robert,  Episcopacy 
.  .  .  not  Prejudicial  to  Regal 
Power,  48 

Sandys,  William,  and  Forster,  S. 
A.,  The  History  of  the  Violin,  115 

Santangelo,  Niccol6,  Civil  Annals 
of  the  Kingdom  of  the  Two  Sici- 
lies, 65 

Savage,  Philip  H.,  Poems,  314 

Sayyid,  Ali,  Illustrated  Turkish 
Dictionary,  80 

Scarron,  Paul,  Don  Japhet  of  Ar- 
menia, 48 

Schauffler,  Rachel  C,  The  Goodly 
Fellowship,  374 

SchaufiBer,  Robert  H.,  The  Musi- 
cal Amateur,  373;  Scum  of  the 
Earth,  375 

Schefer,  L.  C,  Hebreisches  Worter 
Biich,  188 

Schreiner,  Olive,  Woman  and 
Labor,  262 

Schultz,  Hermann,  Alttestament- 
liche  Theologie,  219 

Schumacher,  Charles  A.,  TJie 
Voice  of  the  Pine,  413 


Schuster,  Arthur,  The  Progress  of 
Physics,  226 

Scudder,  Horace,  Doings  of  the 
Bodley  Family  in  the  Town  and 
Country,  341 

Seawell,  Molly  E.,  The  Ladies' 
Battle,  262 

Sdgur,  Comtesse  de.  La  Sceur  de 
Gribouille,  271 

Seibert,  Venita,  The  Gossamer 
Thread,  T,-j\ 

Seton,  Ernest  Thompson,  The 
Natural  History  of  the  Ten  Com- 
mandments, 393;  The  Biography 
of  a  Grizzly,  401 ;  Lives  of  the 
Hunted,  401 ;  Two  Little  Savages, 
402;  The  Trail  of  the  Sandhill 
Stag,  440 

Severy,  Melvin  L.,  Gillette's  In- 
dustrial Solution,  207 

Seward,  William  H.,  Life  and 
Public  Services  of  John  Quincy 
Adams,  200 

Shakespeare,  William,  Venus  and 
Adonis,  91;  The  Rape  of  Lu- 
crece,  91;  Sonnets,  97 

Sharp,  William,  The  Sin  Eater  and 
Other  Tales,  247;  From  the  Hills 
of  Dream,  402 

Shaw,  Thomas,  Clovers  and  How 
to  Grow  Them,  443 

Shedd,  William  A.,  Islam  and  the 
Oriental  Churches,  206 

Shelley,  Percy  B.,  Hellas,  112; 
The  Cenci,  234;  Queen  Mob, 
330 

Shelton,  Jane  DeF.,  The  Salt  Box 
House,  440 

Shelton,  Louise,  The  Seasons  in  a 
Flower  Garden,  393 

Shepherd,  Henry  E.,  Life  of  Rob- 
ert Edward  Lee,  195 

Sherman,  Frank  D.,  Madrigals 
and  Catches,  347 

Sherwood,  B.  K.,  Campfire,  Mem- 
orial Day,  and  Other  Poems,  399 

Shorthouse,  J.  Henry,  John  Ingle- 
sant,  301 

Sibley,  Ebenezer,  A  New  and  Com- 
plete Illustration,  etc.,  189 

Sidney,  Sir  Philip,  The  Countess 
of  Pembroke's  Arcadia,  327 

Sieveking,  Giberne,  The  Memoir 
of  Sir  Horace  Mann,  32^ 


468 


Index 


Simpson,  P.  Carnegie,  The  Life  of 

Principal  Rainy,  196 
Sinclair,    Upton,    The    Industrial 

Republic,  251 
Sinclair,  W.  A.,  The  Aftermath  of 

Slavery,  172 
Slaveikoff,   Pencho,   Bernard,   H., 

and  Pillon,  R.  J.,  The  Shade  of 

the  Balkans,  154 
Slicer,   Thomas  R.,    The   Way  to 

Happiness,  317 
Smith,  David  E.,  Rara  Arithme- 

tica,  225 
Smith,  Elizabeth  T.  M.,  Children 

of  Wilton  Chase,  273 
Smith,    F.    Hopkinson,   A    White 

Umbrella  in  Mexico,  273;  ^  Day 

at  Laguerre's  and  Other  Days, 

308;  Woodfire  in  No.  J,  441 
Smith,     George,     Twelve     Indian 

Statesmen,  171;  Stephen  Hislop, 

203 
Smith,   Colonel    Nicholas,    Grant, 

the  Man  of  Mystery,  182 
Smith,    Mrs.    W.    Hinckley,    and 

Hulsey,  Mrs.  James  J.,  Famous 

Old  Receipts,  403 
SOna,  GyofQ,  Literature  of  the  New 

Generation,  227 
Spears,  John  R.,  David  G.  Farra- 

gut,    181;    The   History  of  Our 

Navy,  443 
Spenser,     Edmund,     The     Faerie 

Queene,   37;    Mother   Hubberd's 

Tale,  88;  Ruines  of  Time,  89; 

Colin  Clout's  Come  Home  Again, 

92;  Fowre  Hymnes,  93 
Spillane,    Daniel,    History   of  the 

American  Pianoforte,  192 
Stahlschmidt,  J.  C.,  Surrey  Belles 

and  London  Bell  Founders,  304 
Stanley,     Arthur     P.,     Historical 

Memorials  of  Westminster  Abbey 

72;     Historical     Memorials     of 

Canterbury,  151;  Lectures  on  the 

History    of  the  Jewish    Church, 

339 

Starr,  Louis,  Hygiene  of  the  Nur- 
sery, 273 

Stearns,  Frank  P.,  Sketches  from 
Concord  and  Appledore,  412 

Steele,  Richard,  The  Taller,  106 

Steiner,  Edward  A.,  On  the  Trail 
of  the  Immigrant,  206;  Against 


the  Current,  226;  TJte  Immigrant 
Tide,  319 

Stephens,  Thomas,  The  Literature 
of  the  Kymry,  68 

Sterne,  Laurence,  Tristram 
Shandy,  136 

Stevenson,  Robert  L.,  The  Master 
of  BallantrcB,  116;  The  Merry 
Meji,  117;  Underwoods,  201; 
Treasure  Island,  271;  The  Ama- 
teur Emigrant,  342;  A  Child's 
Garden  of  Verses,  353;  Weir  of 
Hermiston,  355;  Memories  and 
Portraits,  361 

Stoddart,  Florence  J.,  As  Old  as 
the  Moon,  403 

Stone,  John  T.,  Footsteps  in  a 
Parish,  195 

Storrs,  R.  S.,  Bernard  of  Clairvaux, 
192 ;  The  Divine  Origin  of  Chris- 
tianity, 210 

Stowe,  Harriet  B.,  Little  Pussy 
Willow,  274 

Streat,  William,  The  Dividing  of 
the  Hooff,  14 

Stuart,  Ruth  M.,  Holly  and  Pizen, 
361 

Sturleson,  Snorre,  Saga  Kings,  66 

Sutcliffe,  Alice  C,  Robert  Fulton 
and  the  Clermont,  156 

Swinburne,  Algernon  C,  Tristram 
of  Lyonesse,  303 

Sybel,  Heinrich  von.  The  Founding 
of  the  German  Empire  by  Wil- 
liam I,  76 

Symonds,  John  Addington,  Essays 
Speculative  and  Suggestive,  308 

Tabb,  John  B.,  Poems,  249 

Tarkington,  Booth,  Cherry,  223 

Taylor,  Bayard,  Home  Pastorals, 
300;  The  Poet's  Journal,  338 

Taylor,  Bert  L.,  and  Gibson,  W. 
C.,  The  Log  of  the  Water  Wagon, 
442 

Taylor,  John,  Et  Habeo,  et  Careo, 
et  Curo,  432 

Tennyson,  Alfred,  To  the  Queen, 
68;  Idylls  of  the  King,  71;  De- 
fence of  Lucknow,  74;  Harold, 
149;  Becket,  150;  Tiresias,  244; 
Ballads  and  Other  Poems,  271 

Tennyson,  Hallam,  Alfred  Lord 
Tennyson,  77 


Index 


469 


Thackeray,    William    M.,    Henry 

Esmond,  114;  Pendennis,  291 
Thompson,  Francis,  Poems,  317 
Thompson,  W.  M.,  and  Lawson, 

T.  W.,  The  Lawson  History  0} 

the  America's  Cup,  440 
Thomson,  James,  Liberty,  53 
Thornbury,  Walter,  Songs  of  the 

Cavaliers,  240 
Thurston,    I.    T.,    The    Bishop's 

Shadow,  157 
Ticknor,  George,  Life  of  William 

Hickling  Prescott,  295 
Tischendorf,    Konstantin,     Codex 

Sinaiticus  Petropotitanus,  72 
Tomalin,  H.  F.,  Three  Vagabonds 

in  Friesland,  443 
Tomkins,  Floyd  W.,  Sunshine  on 

Life's  Way,  446 
Tooice,  John  Home,  Diversions  of 

Purley,  141,  190 
Tracy,  Susan  E.,  Studies  in  Invalid 

Occupation,  280 
Tuer,  Andrew  W.,  Bartolozzi  and 

his  Works,  75 
Tulloch,  John,  Movements  of  Re- 
ligious Thought,  etc.,  244 
Turnbull,    Mrs.    Lawrence,     The 

Golden  Book  of  Venice,  362 
Turner,  William,  Herbal,  35 
Twain,  Mark,  The  Prince  and  the 

Pauper,  271;  Roughing  It,  298; 

Following  the  Equator,  312;  The 

Innocents  Abroad,  340;  Personal 

Recollections  of  Joan  of  Arc,  354 
Twichell,  J.  H.,  John   Winthrop, 

165 
Tyndall,  John,  Heat,  A   Mode  of 
Motion,    220;    Contributions    to 
Molecular  Physics,  220 

Underwood,  John  C,  The  Iron 
Muse,  372 

Vaill,  Elizabeth  S.,  An  American's 
Patriotic  Catechism,  194 

Van  Dyke,  Henr>',  Days  Off,  156; 
The  Gospel  for  a  World  of  Sin, 
223;  The  Poetry  of  Tennyson, 
316;  Little  Rivers,  358;  Fisher- 
man's Luck,  362;  Unknown 
Quantity,  375 

Van    Rensselaer,    Mrs.    Schuyler, 


Art  out  of  Doors,  314;  English 
Cathedrals,  351 

Van  Wagenen,  CM.,  The  Story  of 
Helen,  346;  A  Catagraph,  389; 
My  Lady's  Chamber,  400;  Little 
Thatcher's  Fourth  Birthday,  409; 
The  Joys  of  Childhood,  410; 
Stopping  at  an  Inn,  4.11;  A  Pri- 
mal Element,  416 

Vaughan,  Henry,  Silex  Scintillans, 

15 
Vedder,     Henry     C,      Christian 

Epoch-Makers,  207 
Vega,  Gabriel  Laso  de  la,  Trage- 
dies, 37 
Vega,    Garcilaso    de    la.    General 

History  of  Peru,  21 
Vega,    Don    Joseph    de    la,    The 

Triumphs  of  the  Eagle,  50 
Vignay,  Jean  de,  translation  of  the 

Ludus  Saccorum,  of  J.  de  Cesso- 

lis,  29 
Villegas,   Francesco  de  Quevedo, 

The  Three  Last  Spanish  Muses, 

131;     Toys    of    Childhood    and 

Tricks  of  Genius,  432 
Voldo,  v.,  A  Song  of  America,  and 

Minor  Lyrics,  17 
Voltaire,  Le  Fanatisme,  135;  Les 

Guibres,  384 
Voorhees,  Irving  W.,  Teachings  of 

Thomas  Henry  Huxley,  225 

W.  A.  B.,  A  Little  Book  of  Family 

Verse,  365 
Wagner,  Charles,  The  Better  Way, 

276 
Wainwright,  Jonathan,  Women  of 

the  Bible,  425 
Walker,  J.  Bernard,  An   Unsink- 

able  Titanic,  446 
Wallace,  Lew,  Ben  Hur,  343;  The 

Prince  of  India,  352 
Waller,  Mary  E.,  Flamsted  Quar- 
ries, 444 
Walsh,    W.    Pakenham,    Modern 

Heroes  of  the  Missio7i  Field,  221 
Ward,    Mrs.    Humphr}',    Eleanor, 

171 
Warner,  Charles  D.,  Baddeck,  299 
Warren,  Mrs.,  and  Cullan,  Mrs., 

Treasures  in  Needlework,  257 
Washington,  Booker  T.,  Up  from 

Slavery,  362 


470 


Index 


Waters,  Yssabella,  Visiting  Nurs- 
ing in  the  United  States,  208 

Watson,  Thomas  E.,  The  Life  and 
Times  of  Thomas  Jefferson,  206 

Watson,  William,  The  Drama  of 
Man,  166 

Watts,  Isaac,  The  Knowledge  of 
the  Heavens  and  the  Earth  Made 
Easy,  285 

Weale,  B.  L.  Putnam,  The  Un- 
known God,  415 

Weber,  Alice,  When  I  'm  a  Man, 
418 

Webster,  Noah,  Dissertations  on 
the  English  Language,  140 

Weeks,  John  H.,  Congo  Life  and 
Folklore,  209 

Wegner-Zell,  Berto,  Das  Fochter 
Album,  82 

Wheatley,  Phyllis,  Poems,  no 

Wheeler,  Candace,  Content  in  a 
Garden,  402 ;  The  Book  of  Ease, 
416;   The  Carnival  of  Summer, 

417 

Whewell,  William,  Philosophy  of 
the  Inductive  Sciences,  288 

Whidden,  John  D.,  Ocean  Life  in 
the  Old  Sailing-Ship  Days,  318 

Whistler,  James  A.  M.,  The  Gentle 
Art  of  Making  Enemies,  438 

White,  Andrew  D.,  A  History  of 
the  Warfare  of  Science  with 
TJieology,  205 ;  Seven  Great  States- 
men, 226 

White,  Frederick,  Good  and  Bad 
Cats,  394 

White,  Tristram,  The  Martyrdom 
of  St.  George  of  Cappadocia,  430 

Whitechurch,  Victor  L.,  Downland 
Corner,  446 

Whiting,  Lilian,  The  World  Beauti- 
ful, 152 

Whittier,  Elizabeth,  Poems,  299 

Whittier,  John  G.,  The  Bay  of 
Seven  Islands,  242;  For  Right- 
eousness' Sake,  292;  Amy  Went- 
worth,  292;  Snow-Bound,  340 

Wicksteed,  Philip  H.,  Four  Lec- 
tures on  Henrik  Ibsen,  309 

WiflEen,  Jeremiah,  translation  of 
Tasso's  Jerusalem  Delivered,  1 12 


Wiggin,    Kate    D.,    Kindergarten 

Chimes,  273 ;  The  Story  of  Patsy, 

306;   The   Village  Watch-Tower, 

412 
Willet,     Andrew,     Synopsis    Pa- 

pismi,  12 
Williams,  F.  B.,  On  Many  Seas, 

180 
Williams,  Jesse  L.,  Married  Life 

of  the  Frederick  Car  rolls,  372 
Wilson,  Woodrow,  The  New  Free- 
dom,   210;    A    History    of    the 

American  People,  363 
Windle,  Bertram  C.  A.,  The  Wes- 

sex  of  Thomas  Hardy,  249 
Winslow,  C.  F.,  Force  and  Nature, 

190 
Winslow,   Helen   M.,    Concerning 

Cats,  391 
Winter,  William,   The  Jeffersons, 

302;  Life  and  Art  of  Richard 

Mansfield,  321 ;  Old  Friends,  370 
Wister,    Owen,     The     Virginians, 

154;  Lady  Baltimore,  251 
Wither,  George,  Abuses  Stript  and 

Whipt,  381 
Wood,    Henry,    Ideal    Suggestion 

through  Mental  Photography,  439 
Woods,      Katherine,      The      True 

Story  of  Captain  John  Smith,  363 
Wortabet,  W.  T.,  Arabic-English 

Dictionary,  77 
Wright,  George  F.,  The  Ice  Age  in 

North  America,  322 
Wright,  Harold  B.,   That  Printer 

of  Udell's,  314 
Wright,    Mabel   O.,    Flowers  and 

Ferns  in  their  Haunts,  392;  At 

the  Sign  of  the  Fox,  442 
Wright,  William  H.,   The  Grizzly 

Bear,  393 
Wyeth,  John  A.,  Life  of  General 

Nathan  Bedford  Forrest,  260 

Young,  Edward,  Night  Thoughts, 
136 

Zangwill,  Israel,  The  Melting  Pot, 

156 
Zwemer,    Samuel    M.,    Raymund 

Lull,  426 


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